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Radon
Radon gas is a chemically inert gas, and natural product is a solution of natural uranium. He cracked / broken to form products that emits a type of ionizing radiation. Radon gas is a known cause of lung cancer, with an estimated 12% of lung cancer deaths caused by radon gas, or 15.000 to 22.000 deaths associated with lung cancer every year in America, making radon the second leading cause of cancer lung in America. As with exposure to asbestos, smoking a very large simultaneous increase lung cancer risk with exposure to radon. Radon gas can move through soil and into your home through gaps between the foundations, pipes, channels or other open places. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that one out of every 15 American homes contain radon gas levels are dangerous. Radon gas invisible and odorless, but it can be detected with the boxes is a simple test.
Smoking
- Smoking, the greater the risk of disease along with the large number of cigarettes smoked and the young age of beginning smoking.
- Smoking tobacco smoke, passive smokers are also susceptible to lung cancer, although likely not as active smokers. In some families can be active smokers ‘spreaders’ of lung cancer due to genetic relationship.
- The inclusion of chemical substances such as asbestos, uranium, chromium, and nickel into the body. but these cases are rare. Air pollution is also suspected as a cause of lung cancer but it is still difficult to prove.

Symptom
- A cough is persistent and prolonged
- Chest infections that do not heal
- Breath short and raspy voice
- A bloody cough and phlegm
- Pain in the chest, when coughing and deep breathing
- Loss of appetite and weight loss