As reported in the Great Falls Tribune, July 8, 2001:
Despite warnings from federal Centers for Disease Control, Norton Billington isn't afraid of radon. Billington, a retired Army colonel who says he came down with colon cancer after being exposed to radiation from atomic tests on the Bikini Atoll and Marshall Islands drives here from Florida with his wife each year to sit in a radon health mine.

"It's a different kind of radiation," explained Billington. "It's passive. It does not have any deleterious effect as a cancer agent."

...the British Journal of Rheumatology studied radon spa treatment and reported: "This component of rehabilitative intervention can induce beneficial long-term effects."

And Sadao Hattori, director of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan, concluded that radon therapy actually reduces cancer by stimulating the human immune system. "We lived in Europe for 22 years, and it's recognized there as a legitimate form of health treatment and recommended by doctors," said Billington.

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