Wednesday 4th February 2015 is World Cancer Day, giving us a fantastic opportunity to raise awareness of radon gas, the second leading cause of lung cancer in the UK.
One of the key messages of this year’s World Cancer Day is encouraging people to make Healthy Life Choices, with the organisers stating “Empowering people to make healthy choices and reducing the social and environmental risk factors for cancer are key to achieving the global goal of reducing premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by 25% by 2025 and reaching the targets of the World Cancer Declaration.”
Our goal is to increase awareness of radon so that people can make a decision whether or not to test their home (we recommend that all homes are tested). Radon testing is the only way to know whether a building contains elevated levels of radon and whether the occupants are at risk of developing lung cancer.
We have created a simple factsheet and we hope that this will be shared with friends, family and colleagues to spread the message that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer. Print it and pin to your staff noticeboard, tweet it with the hashtags #worldcancerday & #radon or email a link to your nearest & dearest.
