Your home could be putting you at risk of lung cancer, a Utah cancer expert says

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Oncologists like Dr. Wallace Akerley with the Huntsman Cancer Institute have their calendars full of non-smoking lung cancer patients. How can this be? The answer is simple: radon.

<p>Utah has one of the lowest smoking rates in the country, yet oncologists like Dr. Wallace Akerley with the Huntsman Cancer Institute have their calendars full of lung cancer patients.

</p><p>&quot&#x3B;All of the molecular [lung cancer] breakthroughs occur in patients who don't smoke,&quot&#x3B; shares Dr. Akerley.

 

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