Lung cancer survivor speakss out about dangers of radon:“ I don’ t want this to happen to anybody else.”
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Posted on January 30, 2025
Clare Lewis, a nonsmoker, survived stage 4 lung cancer after discovering her home had extremely high levels of radon gas.
In January 2023, then 65-year-old with stage 4 lung
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Lewis was diagnosed cancer. She’ s a former physical therapist, a life-long athlete and has never been a smoker. A chest X-ray for a broken rib in 2019 showed crystal clear lungs.
So why did she get so sick, and so fast?
The evidence is pretty clear as far as Lewis is concerned. The culprit: radon— an invisible, odorless gas that comes out of the ground and enter homes through cracks and gaps in the foundation, walls or water supply
. It’ s the second leading cause of lung cancer behind smoking in the United States.