Other things that increase your risk of lung cancer include asbestos, secondhand smoke, and radon exposure.
(Lung cancer in uranium miners as a function of radon exposure).
Can data on radon exposure and cancer risks in uranium miners be applied to the general population?
Cohort studies are impractical for the study of domestic radon exposure.
According to these models, radon exposure is thought to be the second major cause of lung cancer after smoking.
Any radon exposure has some risk of causing lung cancer.
What are the health effects of radon exposure?
By this standard, he said, one could expect roughly 10,000 Americans to die of radon exposure each year.
They found no increase in risk attributed to cumulative radon exposure among long-term residents.
It found a significant correlation between radon exposure and cancer.