| Document ID (ISN) | 77055 |
| CIS number |
01-1071 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1076-2752 - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Year |
2000 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Gilliland F.D., Hunt W.C., Pardilla M., Key C.R. |
| Title |
Uranium mining and lung cancer among Navajo men in New Mexico and Arizona, 1969 to 1993 |
| Bibliographic information |
Mar. 2000, Vol.42, No.3, p.278-283. 23 ref. |
| Abstract |
Navajo men who were underground miners have excess risk of lung cancer. To further characterize the long-term consequences of uranium mining in this high-risk population, lung cancer incidence among Navajo men residing in New Mexico and Arizona was examined from 1969 to 1993 and a population-based case-control study was conducted to estimate the risk of lung cancer for Navajo uranium miners. It was found that uranium mining contributed substantially to lung cancer among Navajo men over the 25-year period following the end of mining for the Navajo Nation. Sixty-three (67%) of the 94 lung cancers among Navajo men occurred in former uranium miners. The relative risk for a history of mining was 28.6. Smoking did not account for the strong relationship between lung cancer and uranium mining. The Navajo experience with uranium mining is a unique example of exposure in a single occupation accounting for the majority of lung cancers in an entire population. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
race-linked differences; uranium mining; hazard evaluation; lung cancer |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
USA; New Mexico; long-term study; case-control study; Arizona |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Mines and quarries
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
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| Browse category(ies) |
Mining and quarrying
Risk evaluation
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
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