Radon exposure is fueling Iowa's deadliest cancer

Radon exposure is fueling Iowa's deadliest cancer

Iowa has the highest radon levels in the nation, and doctors say the gas is causing hundreds of lung cancer deaths every year. Rosemary Geiken didn’t know what radon was, let alone the dangers of it, when she was raising her children in Tripoli, Kesley, and Dumont in Northeast Iowa. So she never thought to test for it, either. “Growing up, no, we never tested,” Geiken, who now lives in Urbandale, said. “It wasn’t a thing.” The same thing happene…