Residential Radon: The Neglected Risk Factor in Lung Cancer Risk Scores

Abstract

There are some published scores to estimate lung cancer risk of mortality or incidence. Nevertheless, no score has included residential radon as a variable to be considered when estimating lung cancer risk. In this commentary we discuss the importance of including residential radon as a factor to be taken into account when calculating lung cancer risk.

Keywords: Lung neoplasms; Residential radon; Risk scores; Screening.