Mandatory radon testing when homes are sold, with subsidised mitigation
Radon gas from the ground is the second biggest cause of lung cancer. Testing every home at sale and paying for fixes in high-radon areas would prevent thousands of cases.
Radon is estimated to cause 3-14% of lung cancers depending on country, yet testing is voluntary and rare. Propose mandatory testing at property transaction in high-radon zones, with mitigation subsidies, evaluated by measured indoor radon distributions and modelled lung cancers averted.
- Prevention we already have is not deployed · Around four in ten cancers are preventable with tools we already own: vaccines, tobacco control, weight, alcohol, sun and infection control.
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