{"id":223146,"date":"2025-10-09T03:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-are-collecting-toenail-clippings-to-reveal-radon-exposure-and-lung-cancer-risk"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:27:52","slug":"scientists-are-collecting-toenail-clippings-to-reveal-radon-exposure-and-lung-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-are-collecting-toenail-clippings-to-reveal-radon-exposure-and-lung-cancer-risk","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are collecting toenail clippings to reveal radon exposure and lung cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-collecting-toenail-clippings-to-reveal-radon-exposure-and-lung-cancer-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 47 years of age, Emi Bossio was feeling good about where she was. She had a successful law practice, two growing children and good health. Then she developed a nagging cough. The diagnosis to come would take her breath away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never smoked, never. I ate nutritiously and stayed fit. I thought to myself, I can\u2019t have lung cancer,\u201d says Bossio. \u201cIt was super shocking. A cataclysmic moment. There are no words to describe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bossio had to give up her law practice to focus on treatment and healing. As part of that journey, she\u2019s taken on a new role as an advocate to increase awareness about lung cancer. She still has no idea what caused her lung cancer. Trying to answer that question is how Bossio became interested in the research Dr. Aaron Goodarzi, Ph.D., is doing at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 47 years of age, Emi Bossio was feeling good about where she was. She had a successful law practice, two growing children and good health. Then she developed a nagging cough. The diagnosis to come would take her breath away. \u201cI never smoked, never. I ate nutritiously and stayed fit. I thought to myself, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}