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Lung cancer among Navajo uranium miners.
Lung cancer has been a rare disease among the Indians of the southwestern United States. However, the advent of uranium mining in the area has been associated with an increased incidence of lung cancer among Navajo uranium miners. This study centers on Navajo men with lung cancer who were admitted to the hospital from February 1965 to May 1979. Of a total of 17 patients with lung cancer, 16 wer...
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Recent data from deep uranium mines in Czechoslovakia indicated that in addition to radon daughter products, miners are also exposed to chemical mutagens. Mycotoxins were identified as a possible source of mutagenicity present in the mines. Various methods of biomonitoring were used to examine three groups of miners from different uranium mines. Cytogenetic analysis of peripheral lymphocytes, u...
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Řeřicha et al. (2006) analyzed data from Czech uranium miners with respect to incidence of malignancies of the lymphohematopoietic system. Their results, however, do not correspond with those of two recent studies on German uranium miners (Kreuzer et al. 2004; Möhner et al. 2006). Řeřicha et al. (2006) used a case– cohort design, in which the subcohort was stratified by attained age and duratio...
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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining, edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther YazzieLewis, is an easy and informative read. The book tells an important and heretofore untold story about the experiences of Navajo miners and families in the uranium mining industry. With a stirring foreword written by Stewart L. Udall, former U.S. Representative for Arizona and Secretary of the Interior...
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Dr. Ronald A. House completed his B.Sc. (Genetics) and his MD, CM degrees at McGill University. He subsequently did training in occupational health at the University of Toronto. He was awarded his fellowship in occupational medicine (FRCPC) by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1988. He also completed a M.Sc. degree in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University in 1986....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.93.3.362