Sentences with phrase «miners developed lung»

One goal of the study (which controls for smoking) was to learn how many miners developed lung cancer.

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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.

Asbestos miners in the ancient world did develop lung diseases.