Uranium Health Studies:
Navajo Uranium Miners

• Lung cancer risk in Navajo men who were uranium miners is 20x-30x GREATER than for Navajo men who never mined uranium
• 67% of lung cancer cases in Navajo men between 1969 and 1993 were attributable to a single exposure — underground uranium mining
• Smoking did NOT account for the large relative risk of lung cancer in Navajo men
• Increased lung cancer cases in former Navajo miners likely to continue as the miner cohort ages
• Source: Gilliland, et al., JOEM, 3/2000.

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