Lung cancer epidemiology in New Mexico uranium miners. Final technical report, 1 April 1983-15 May 1986

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5665402

Samet, J M

This investigation assessed the health effects of radon daughter exposure in New Mexico uranium miners. Cumulative exposures sustained by earlier New mexicon miners are well below those of the Colorado Plateau; more recent miners have had even lower exposures, governed by the Federal standard of 4 working level months (WLM) annually. Cohort studies of mortality in two separate groups are in progress: a retrospective cohort study of an already selected group of 3055 miners with first underground experience before 1971; and a prospective cohort study of miners first exposed from 1971 on. For both groups, records of company physical examinations will supply mining and smoking histories. Radon daughter exposures after 1967 are available from the companies. For 1967 and earlier, they will be estimated from records of measurements made by the state. During this investigation, mortality in the cohort of earlier miners through December, 1982, will be examined. The feasibility of a large prospective cohort study of more recent miners will also be determined. Analysis of the retrospective cohort data will focus on dose-response relationships for lung cancer, interaction of cigarette smoking with radon daughter exposure in lung cancer etiology, and the occurrence of lung diseases other than cancer. Conventional cohort analysis and multivariate techniques will be used.

• Research Organization: New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AS04-83ER60119
• OSTI ID: 5665402
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/60119-T3; ON: DE86011814
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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