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A Creative Plan for Fighting Cancer -- And Slashing Medical Costs

By Andrew SchneiderDec 4th 2009 – 12:12PM

About 400 physicians are gathered today in Lansing, Mich., to hear an unlikely message: A major health insurance company wants them to test symptom-free patients to determine whether they have or may get cancer. And it will pay the doctors to do it. The plan, conceived by one of the state's top cancer doctors and to be...

Background on radon

Radon ( ) is a chemical element with the atomic number 86, and is represented by the symbol Rn. It is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, occurring naturally as the decay product of uranium or thorium.

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