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The survival rate for lung cancer is about 17%.  So let's not rely on the difference between getting it and dying of it.   [/quote]

Where did you get that from? This source says that five-year survival rates range from 49% if diagnosed as Stage IA non-small-cell lung cancer to 1% if diagnosed as Stage IV, based on people diagnosed with lung cancer between 1998 and 2000.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/lungcancer-non-smallcell/detailedguide/non-small-cell-lung-cancer-survival-rates[/quote]

Look harder.  What percent are caught at stage one?  Hint: not many. [/quote]

If you're the 17% PP, could you please just provide a link to where you got that number from?[/quote]

^^^never mind, I see you did.

Regardless, the incidence rate of lung cancer is not the same as the death rate from lung cancer. And the EPA is a more reliable source of information than a company that sells radon tests over the Internet.[/quote]

You're quibbling at the margins in an attempt to minimize a known hazard.  This is t controversial.  Radon causes lung cancer, which kills over eighty percent of the people who get it, and these schools exceed the radon limits.  And McPs knew and kept the information private and did nothing about it.   You want to defend that?  Seriously?[/quote]

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