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WCLC 2025 | Hurdles in assessing radon exposure in lung cancer risk assessment
Marta Garcia de Herreros, MD, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, comments on the challenges of measuring radon and integrating exposomes in lung cancer risk assessment. Standardized radon measurements are needed, which are currently not as well-established as tobacco smoking, and more research is needed to develop feasible and easy-to-measure methods for radon assessment. This interview took place at 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Barcelona, Spain.
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The first challenge is how to objectively measure radon and how to standardize radon measurements because it’s not so well standardized as tobacco smoking. So the first thing is to implement radon measurements that are feasible and very easy to measure but we need to standardize. And then once we get the results to integrate all these exposomes combining risk factors, I mean smoking, radon, second-hand smoking, environmental exposures, cancer history, and familial cancer history...
The first challenge is how to objectively measure radon and how to standardize radon measurements because it’s not so well standardized as tobacco smoking. So the first thing is to implement radon measurements that are feasible and very easy to measure but we need to standardize. And then once we get the results to integrate all these exposomes combining risk factors, I mean smoking, radon, second-hand smoking, environmental exposures, cancer history, and familial cancer history. So to integrate the exposome and try to move forward to the clinical implications.
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