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1 cause that I think is accepted in the United States Page 1726 2 right now, and this has been so extremely rare it is 3 probably hardly worth mentioning, it is not 4 statistically significant; there have been about 30 5 cases of mesothelioma reported in people who had other 6 cancers for which they received therapeutic radiation. 7 An example would be a kidney cancer, where the person 8 was radiated through their abdomen, and 20 to 40 years 9 later they have developed a mesothelioma in that site 10 of radiation. 11 And there has now been about 30 cases 12 reported in the entire world's literature since that 13 was first reported many years ago. There was just an 14 article that came out on that last year. 15 Q That was radiation, Doctor? 16 A That is therapeutic radiation. That is not 17 the background radiation that, maybe we all would be 18 exposed to in our daily lives. 19 Radon exists, that is a naturally decaying 20 product of certain earth elements, et cetera. 21 Q How does that, which you have told us about