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Cutting Your Lung Cancer Risk  

Sara D. Davis for The New York Times Taylor Bell's lung cancer was diagnosed in 2007 when she was 22; she is among those featured in Patient Voices: Lung Cancer.

If you stop smoking, does your increased cancer risk eventually return to zero? Can eating carrots protect against lung cancer? Should a recovering cancer patient test for radon, and are there other risks to be aware of in the home? Is there an estrogen-lung cancer link? These are among the questions readers recently posed by readers of the Consults blog. Dr. Derek Raghavan, director of the Taussig Cancer Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, responds.

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