The pandemic has recharged that debate as clinical trials across the world test whether low doses of radiation can help treat patients with COVID-19. But radon gas isn’t the same radiation U.S. doctors use, experts caution.
. Although oncologists use radiation as a front-line treatment to destroy cancer cells, its role in the U.S. in low doses for other ailments is disputed.across the world test whether low doses of radiation can help treat patients with COVID-19. But radon gas isn’t the same radiation U.S. doctors use, experts caution.
Marples said much of the argument for radon’s therapeutic use relies on historical reports, unlike evidence-based research on clinical radiation. Still, some radiation experts are split on what level of radon should be deemed dangerous or whether it could have positive health effects. So travelers head to western Montana, where four inactive mines flush with radon are within 11 miles of one another near the rural communities of Basin and Boulder. Day passes range from $7 to $15. The gas naturally forms when radioactive elements in the mountains’ bedrock decay.
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