Researchers to keep miners informed
The research team looking into a rare cancer on Minnesota's Iron Range says it wants to meet often with mine workers and retirees.
Fifty-nine men in northeastern Minnesota have died of mesothelioma, which strikes the lining of the lung.
The University of Minnesota's School of Public Health is leading the $5 million investigation, drawing on a database of 72,000 miners. One part of the complicated effort is figuring out just how much rock dust to which workers have been exposed.
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