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POPE LEO’s LUNG CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND WHAT MAY HAVE CAUSED IT
Pope Leo never smoked, never had medical problems, and is active. We know that 17% of all lung cancers we see are in people who never smoked but who inhaled second-hand smoke between the ages of 3 and 15 years old. I don’t know if he had this exposure.
His brother has multiple myeloma.
One common denominator for both lung cancer and multiple myeloma is RADON exposure.
Dolton, Illinois, Pope Leo’s hometown where he grew up, doesn’t have a reliable published radon reading for the town itself, and there’s no public measurement for Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home. One source places Dolton in EPA Radon Zone 2, meaning a predicted county-average range of 2–4 pCi/L—not a measurement of any particular house. The Illinois average is reported as 5.1 pCi/L. Radon varies from home to home, so only testing can establish a specific home’s level; the EPA recommends fixing a home at 4 pCi/L or above.
