ncavtnsintatetatari! atAat eins Nate AN eeenn
cose
33
which don't mean anything as far as lung
cancer is conoerned.
DR. ALBERT:
The latent period in
Europe was something 6n the order of fifteen
or seventeen years ania very sual fraction
of a group of miners on the rlateau, have
worked for longer than five years.
:
Of course, this in itself cay be
a protection end that is turn of rate is
quite high, alco propably, the general level
of health of the American ciners is consider-=
ably higher in terme of incidence of lung
infection which may have something to do with
the incidence of esncer,
DR. BUGHER?:
point in here too.
There's one other
Uranium mining on the plateau has
gone on for a long tine,
It 4e sicost of
insignificant mungnitude until the incprovee
ment in the coloring of the low grade ores
nade it economic to vorie thece tyne of dee
posits and that ie relatively recent.
So that the whole problem did not
exist in the eerlier years in the Comaission's
life when the uranium cupply was largely from
33.