Health committee  How many years does it last? I think the point is that it will last as long as the system is well maintained, just like any other system in the home. Your furnace will last a long time if you put maintenance into it and make sure it's working properly. Radon reduction systems are

Health committee  A student of mine actually talked to the primary contractor in British Columbia and looked at all of his pre-radon and post-radon tests; incredibly effective in terms of—

Health committee  Yes, it will be statistics. Basically, we're taking the province of British Columbia and we're saying, okay, if we draw the line in the sand at 300, these areas are higher-radon and those areas are lower-radon; and if we draw it at 400, these areas are higher-radon and those area

Health committee  That's right. This is all lung cancers. We don't know which ones are attributable to smoking and which ones are attributable to radon. All we can say is that the areas with more radon and the areas with less radon have different patterns.

Health committee  To the best of my knowledge, this is the only study to look at temporal trends in lung cancer mortality related to radon over time. We couldn't find anything else in the literature that was like this when we published it. As part of the end of the study, we really encouraged ot

Health committee  That's disintegrations per second.

Health committee  Everything would be speculation at this point. There does seem to be a bigger effect on women. We do know that if you took a population of non-smoking women and a population of non-smoking men, there would be more lung cancer in the non-smoking women. It might be that being femal

Health committee  Good afternoon. There is a slide deck for me as well. The first page of that slide deck should say, “Radon risk areas and lung cancer mortality trends in British Columbia”. I hope that you all have it. I will try to speak to the slides as I go along for those who don't have them