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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

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