Lung Cancer and Minnesota Miners
The relationship between respiratory disease and mining work has been a continuing concern in northeastern Minnesota, where unusually high rates of mesothelioma—a rare and fatal form of cancer—have been reported among males since the late 1980s. Jeffrey Mandel, an environmental health sciences professor at the University of Minnesota, is helping lead an effort to find out why.
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Continuing mining work is caused to the lung cancer. Thanks Mandel.
I think more and more efforts are needed in this field and more knowledge should be spreaded about lung cancer, to prevent it......
I aggree with mestothelioma, more knowledge can improve the way worker to prevent himself affected by lung cancer ...
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