Effect of alpha radiation from the decay of radon to lung cancer

Abstract

In many countries, radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, which accounts for 3% to 14% of cases. The paper presents the molecular genetic analysis of the KRAS gene in patients with lung cancer who live in Almaty, where the radon level exceeds the norm. Disorders in the studied gene lead to the development of many cancers. The analysis showed that examined patients don’t have a mutations in 12-13 codons of the KRAS gene, which corresponds tothe control group, consisting of 90 people. Perhaps this is dueto the small sample of the study group.