Sentences with phrase «navajo uranium miners»
«Mortality among Navajo Uranium Miners,» Robert J. Roscoe, MS, James A. Deddens, PhD, Alberto Salvan, MD, PhD, and Teresa Schnorr, PhD; American Journal of Public Health, Vol.
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In the late 1970s, Navajo uranium miners and their families asked for help to show that their lung diseases had been caused by their work in underground uranium mines in the 1940s - 1960s.
«Lung Cancer Among Navajo Uranium Miners,» Leon S. Gottlieb, M.D., F.C.C.P., and Laverne A. Husen, M.D., CHEST, Volume 81:4, April 1982.
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The machines handle the decaying element's radiation better than human miners and can tolerate the radon gas released by the ore; early Navajo miners of uranium in the U.S. — and their families exposed to residual radioactive dust and debris as well as contaminated water — developed lung cancer and other ailments by the 1970s and 1980s.