{"id":79,"date":"2014-07-08T00:51:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T04:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2021-11-14T19:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T19:21:14","slug":"radon-gas-risk-safety-levels-comparison-smoker-non-smoker-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/radon-gas-risk-safety-levels-comparison-smoker-non-smoker-lung-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Radon Gas Risk Factor Safety Levels Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you put the risk from radon into perspective, especially since all homes contain some level of radon gas in them and there is no &#8220;safe level&#8221; except zero?<\/p>\n<p>I have found the following charts to be helpful in evaluating risk: (please click on the pictures for a full sized detailed view)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3207\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3207\" class=\"wp-image-3207 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Radon-Chart-Relative-Risk.gif\" alt=\"Radon Gas Cancer Radiation Risk Safety Dallas Houston Austin\" width=\"508\" height=\"507\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radon Gas Chart Safety Level Relative Risk Factors<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Texas-CMIS-Mold-Information-Sheet.pdf\">Texas CMIS Mold Information Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_100\" style=\"width: 905px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Radon-risks-for-smokers_non-smokers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100\" class=\"wp-image-100 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Radon-risks-for-smokers_non-smokers.jpg\" alt=\"Radon Gas Cancer Risk Smokers Non-Smokers Chart\" width=\"895\" height=\"574\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Radon Cancer Risk Chart for Smokers vs. Non-smokers<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Notice that the risk for a radon level at the EPA action limit of 4 picoCuries\/liter is similar to the same risk of dying in a car wreck. I have personally observed several residences that I have tested in Dallas county to EXCEED this limit including my own home.<\/p>\n<p>Radon is linked to not just lung cancer, but recent epidemiological evidence also suggests that radon gas may also be a risk factor and contributor to<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)\u00a0\u00a0 13 % &#8211; 25 % of all cases worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>Kidney cancer<\/li>\n<li>Certain childhood cancers<\/li>\n<li>Melanoma<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you put the risk from radon into perspective, especially since all homes contain some level of radon gas in them and there is no &#8220;safe level&#8221; except zero? I have found the following charts to be helpful in evaluating risk: (please click on the pictures for a full sized detailed view) Texas CMIS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,2],"tags":[113,26,23,49,100,17,105,25,102],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radontestingdallas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}