Early lung cancer detection in uranium miners with abnormal sputum cytology

Technical Report · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5380990· OSTI ID:5380990

Saccomanno, G

This work, supported by the United States Department of Energy, continues to add data on the health effects of cigarette smoking and radon exposure. Since the beginning of this contract, 473 sputum samples have been collected from 286 uranium workers who are routinely screened in an effort to identify cell changes that could signal possible progression to lung cancer; seven new lung cancer cases have been identified during this period. At this time, there are 426 lung cancer cases in the uranium miner tumor registry with diagnostic slides from surgery and/or autopsy; an additional 40 cases have been diagnosed with sputum cytology only.

• Research Organization: Saint Mary's Hospital and Medical Center, Grand Junction, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-90ER60939
• OSTI ID: 5380990
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/60939-2; ON: DE91017704
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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