Date Published: 04/09/2007 [Source]
Susan Levin moved to Lakewood from Manhattan in 2000 to care for her mother, Chasia, who was dying from lung cancer. As Levin watched Chasia's condition deteriorate, and the cancer emaciate her body, she started to read voraciously about the disease and found some surprising information.
"I learned that you don't have to be a smoker to die from lung cancer," said Levin, 58. The second leading cause of lung cancer is radon. "I found out that at least 20 percent of the women diagnosed with the disease never smoked, studies showed. I didn't want other families to feel the shock I did when we got the diagnosis, so I worked to start a grass-roots advocacy group."
The second leading cause of lung cancer is radon.