South Dakota has published its Cancer Plan for 2021-2025. The Plan resulted from a collaborative planning process undertaken by the South Dakota Department of Health: South Dakota Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (SD CCCP), South Dakota Cancer Coalition, and other cancer prevention and control stakeholders in South Dakota.
Radon is included in the Plan priorities, objectives and strategies as follows:
Priority 4: Reduce Exposure to Environmental Carcinogens.
Objectives: 4.1 Decrease the age-adjusted lung cancer incidence rate in South Dakota from 58.34 to 56.0 per 100,000 by 2025.
Strategies:
Educate about radon and other environmental carcinogens, including equitable strategies to reduce exposure.
Promote radon testing and mitigation within homes, schools, and worksites.
The Plan notes that the goals, priorities, strategies, and objectives included in the plan are evidence-based approaches designed to encourage change in policies, systems, and/or environments in South Dakota to make the healthy choice, the easy choice.
Source: South Dakota Cancer Plan 2021-2025. Pierre, SD: South Dakota Department of Health; 2020. Available online at: www.cancersd.com
For more information about radon in South Dakota, see
South Dakota Department of Agricultural and Natural Resources
https://denr.sd.gov/des/aq/aarad.aspx
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