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Radon is now known to be the leading cause of environmental cancer mortality and is the seventh overall leading cause of cancer mortality.The World Health Organization as well as governments all over the world recognize the risk of radon and are taking action.You too can take action in your own home. Radon Atlantic can help. We offer certified solutions at reasonable costs. We encourage you to learn more about the risk of radon and the effective solutions that can make your home a healthy place for your family.Test KitsWe strongly recommend purchasing your test kit through the Nova Scotia Lung Association.They offer a top quality alpha track test kit for $35 (including all lab fees) and will mail kits to any area of the province.  This system allows tests of varying length to be performed. Applicable to most homes, a 91-day test can be performed under regular living conditions (no need to maintain closed house conditions) and is recognized by both Health Canada and the EPA as giving an accurate representation of average radon levels present in a home.Results are suitable for determining the possible need for mitigation.Order NS Lung Association Testing Kit OnlineThe RiskRadon is a known human “Class A” carcinogen.The gas and its decay products have been directly linked to lung cancer. Smokers or those exposed to second-hand smoke are at much greater risk.The only way to find out if your home has a radon problem is to measure the level inside it.Learn more about the risk of radon and the effective solutions that can make your home a healthy place for your family.We found significant associations and exposure-response patterns between long-term residential radon exposure radon in a general population and risk of primary brain tumours, adding new knowledge to this field. This finding could be chance and needs to be challenged in future studies.Residential Radon and Brain Tumour Incidence in Danish Cohort StudyOctober 2013http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24066143 National Center for Biotechnology Information Naturally occurring isotopes of radon in indoor air are identified as the second leading cause of lung cancer after tobacco smoking. Radon-222 (radon gas) and radon-220 (thoron gas) are the most common isotopes of radon. While extensive radon surveys have been conducted, indoor thoron data are very limited. To better assess thoron exposure in Canada, radon/thoron discriminating detectors were deployed in 45 homes in Fredericton and 65 homes in Halifax for a period of 3 months. In this study, radon read more Radiation Protection Bureau, Health CanadaUS National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Healthhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21216734 PubMed.govNew Health Canada research indicates there are hundreds more cases annually of lung cancer caused by indoor radon exposure than first determined in the late 1970s, prompting the agency to urge Canadians to check levels of the colourless and odourless gas in their homes.Health Canada tests conducted in the late 1970s estimated that 10 per cent of lung cancers resulted from indoor exposure to the radioactive gas read moreRadon linked to more lung cancer deaths than previously thoughtAugust 2012http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/radon-linked-to-more-lung-cancer-deaths-than-previously-thought-1.1209858 CBC News HealthThe air inside your home plays a huge role in the way you and the rest of your family feel on a day-to-day basis.Want to know the hard facts? The air inside your home can be two to five times more polluted than the air outside. In some cases, it’s 100 times worse!Indoor air quality and radon levels should be on home inspection listsMike Holmes, Special to National Posthttp://life.nationalpost.com/2013/11/05/indoor-air-quality-and-radon-levels-should-be-on-home-inspection-lists/ National PostTake Action on RadonRadon exposure is the leading cause of lung cancer for non-smokers and Canadians are urged to take action to protect their health and the health of their families.Learn More

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