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Volume 331:1098 October 20, 1994 Number 16
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Radon and Lung Cancer

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To the Editor: In a recent letter (June 9 issue),1 Dr. Chatterton asks how information from an epidemiologic article on the risks of lung cancer after exposure to radon by Pershagen et al. (Jan. 20 issue)2 can be of value to him in his practice. The answer is often lost in uncertainty and the lack of power of epidemiologic studies to resolve intractable issues, but in this case, an approach can be divined. Physicians can give the following advice to their patients: Stop smoking, and if you will not or cannot, then please conduct a long-term test (more than 90 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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