Cancer of the lungs is a complex cancer, with 4 main types and each type has many mutations and aberrations! It has reached
a staggering 2.2 million people worldwide every year being diagnosed with lung cancer and 1.8 million dying every year! (1) That is 15,768,000,000 life
hours lost every year forever.
Lung cancer accounts for 18%
of all deaths from the over 100 types of cancer! Staggering What if now and in the future, we can cut the 1.8 million by 20% or 360,000 lives (possibly more) simply by concentrating on just one area.
I am a patient advocate for cancer of the lungs having been diagnosed 3 times, first in 2011 tumor in the lung, then 2012 tumors in my right groin and then finally in 2019 with METS to the brain. I belong to a very small group of lung cancer patients whose treatments worked were and in short order, no ongoing treatments and still around 12 years later. Part of the 1%
Cancer of the lungs is like a jigsaw puzzle of million of pieces (representing individuals diagnosed) but they are all upside down. But many pieces are easily distinguishable and can be put together and complete a section of the puzzle. Those pieces happen to be Radon and “what if!” becomes can do.
So, about that “what if” which happens to be Radon. It is well known that we can prevent many cancer of the lungs from occurring through prevention. Radon is the easiest to take off the list of causes of lung cancer. Radon is something that everyone can do something about. It is one of the preventable catalysts related to cancer of the lungs. We may not prevent those who it is already affecting, but in combination with early screening those who currently have a tumor growing inside them due to Radon exposure have a better chance of long-term living! It is also about the future and those who come after us, the children who because of long term exposure will become a heart wrenching statistic in the future which we are starting to see now. It is about the 20% plus of never smokers, mostly women who it is affecting Women who are the caretakers of so many worldwide. The glue that holds so many together in many ways.
Radon is also something that has been on the radar for many years; in the 50’s and 60’s when it was discovered that Radon Particles was the cause of lung cancer with miners. In 1984 there was the Watras Incident (3) when Stanley J. Watras set off the radiation monitor systems when entering a nuclear power plant and not leaving the plant. It was in his home! Discovery by accident.
We know Radon is classified by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as Group 1, carcinogenic to humans, with a well-established link to lung cancer. The 2012 IARC review of Group 1 carcinogens reaffirmed this classification first shown in the following report: IARC MONOGRAPH VOL. 43, 1988 (GROUP 1) (2)
We also know it can be mastered and tamed. We have that power. But according to WHO only 12% of countries they surveyed provide radon education to building professionals. From experience in speaking with the public, when they learn about Radon, and it’s affects, they are more than willing to take action. Fixing is the least expensive part of the financial equation, getting cancer of the lungs is the most costly in money but more importantly lives and futures.
Imagine having all the pieces of the Radon portion of the cancer of the lungs puzzle put together, where can we go from there and who will be able to change their course in life?
WHAT IS THE MEASURE OF 360,000 LIVES ANNUALLY?
INTERACTIVE MAP OF WHERE RADON IS AROUND THE WORLD
https://radonmap.com/ This is a site where you can get up to date information on Radon around the world
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IARC MONOGRAPH VOL. 43, 1988 (GROUP 1)
Everyone can be a pebble that creates the avalanche of change
I am a patient advocate for cancer of the lungs having been diagnosed 3 times, first in 2011 tumor in the lung, then 2012 tumors in my right groin and then finally in 2019 with METS to the brain.
I belong to a very small group
of lung cancer patients whose treatments worked were
in short order, no ongoing treatments and still around
12 years later. Part of the 1%
Cancer of the lungs is like a jigsaw puzzle of million of pieces (representing individuals diagnosed) but they are all upside down.
But many pieces are easily distinguishable and can be
put together and complete a section of the puzzle. Those pieces happen to be Radon and “what if!” becomes can do.
So, about that “what if” which happens to be Radon. It is well known that we can prevent many cancer of the lungs from occurring through prevention. Radon is the easiest to take off the list of causes of lung cancer. Radon is something that everyone can do something about. It is one of the preventable catalysts related to cancer of the lungs. We may not prevent those who it is already affecting, but in combination with early screening those who currently have a tumor growing inside them due to Radon exposure have a better chance of long-term living! It is also about the future and those who come after us, the children who because of long term exposure will become a heart wrenching statistic in the future which we are starting to see now. It is about the 20% plus of never smokers, mostly women who it is affecting Women who are the caretakers of so many worldwide. The glue that holds so many together in many ways.
Radon is also something that has been on the radar for many years; in the 50’s and 60’s when it was discovered that Radon Particles was the cause of lung cancer with miners. In 1984 there was the Watras Incident (3) when Stanley J. Watras set off the radiation monitor systems when entering a nuclear power plant and not leaving the plant. It was in his home! Discovery by accident.
We know Radon is classified by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as Group 1, carcinogenic to humans, with a well-established link to lung cancer. The 2012 IARC review of Group 1 carcinogens reaffirmed this classification first shown in the following report: IARC MONOGRAPH VOL. 43, 1988 (GROUP 1) (2)
We also know it can be mastered and tamed. We have that power. But according to WHO only 12% of countries they surveyed provide radon education to building professionals. From experience in speaking with the public, when they learn about Radon, and it’s affects, they are more than willing to take action. Fixing is the least expensive part of the financial equation, getting cancer of the lungs is the most costly in money but more importantly lives and futures.
Imagine having all the pieces of the Radon portion of the cancer of the lungs puzzle put together, where can we go from there and who will be able to change their course in life?
WHAT IS THE MEASURE OF 360,000 LIVES ANNUALLY?
INTERACTIVE MAP OF WHERE RADON IS AROUND THE WORLD
https://radonmap.com/ This is a site where you can get up to date information on Radon around the world
1.
2.
IARC MONOGRAPH VOL. 43, 1988 (GROUP 1)
So, about that “what if” which happens to be Radon. It is well known that we can prevent many cancer of the lungs from occurring through prevention. Radon is the easiest to take off the list of causes of lung cancer. Radon is something that everyone can do something about. It is one of the preventable catalysts related to cancer of the lungs. We may not prevent those who it is already affecting, but in combination with early screening those who currently have a tumor growing inside them due to Radon exposure have a better chance of long-term living! It is also about the future and those who come after us, the children who because of long term exposure will become a heart wrenching statistic in the future which we are starting to see now. It is about the 20% plus of never smokers, mostly women who it is affecting Women who are the caretakers of so many worldwide. The glue that holds so many together in many ways.
Radon is also something that has been on the radar for many years; in the 50’s and 60’s when it was discovered that Radon Particles was the cause of lung cancer with miners. In 1984 there was the Watras Incident (3) when Stanley J. Watras set off the radiation monitor systems when entering a nuclear power plant and not leaving the plant. It was in his home! Discovery by accident.
We know Radon is classified by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as Group 1, carcinogenic to humans, with a well-established link to lung cancer. The 2012 IARC review of Group 1 carcinogens reaffirmed this classification first shown in the following report: IARC MONOGRAPH VOL. 43, 1988 (GROUP 1) (2)
We also know it can be mastered and tamed. We have that power. But according to WHO only 12% of countries they surveyed provide radon education to building professionals. From experience in speaking with the public, when they learn about Radon, and it’s affects, they are more than willing to take action. Fixing is the least expensive part of the financial equation, getting cancer of the lungs is the most costly in money but more importantly lives and futures.
Imagine having all the pieces of the Radon portion of the cancer of the lungs puzzle put together, where can we go from there and who will be able to change their course in life?
WHAT IS THE MEASURE OF 360,000 LIVES ANNUALLY?
INTERACTIVE MAP OF WHERE RADON IS AROUND THE WORLD
https://radonmap.com/ This is a site where you can get up to date information on Radon around the world
1.
2.
IARC MONOGRAPH VOL. 43, 1988 (GROUP 1)
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