학술논문

Early Lung Cancer Detection in Uranium Miners with Abnormal Sputum Cytology
Document Type
Technical Report
Author
Source
Other Information: PBD: 30 Jun 2000
Subject
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES COLORADO PLATEAU
CYTOLOGY
DETECTION
GENETICS
LUNGS
MINERS
MONITORS
NEOPLASMS
RADIATIONS
RADON
SKULL
URANIUM
Language
English
Abstract
''Early Lung Cancer Detection in Uranium Miners with Abnormal Sputum Cytology'' was funded by the Department of Energy to monitor the health effects of radon exposure and/or cigarette smoke on uranium workers from the Colorado Plateau. The resulting Saccomanno Uranium Workers Archive and data base has been used as a source of information to prove eligibility for compensation under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and as the source of primary data tissue for a subcontract and other collaborations with outside investigators. The latter includes a study of radon exposure and lung cancer risk in a non-smoking cohort of uranium miners (subcontract); a study of genetic markers for lung cancer susceptibility; and a study of {sup 210}Pb accumulation in the skull as a biomarker of radon exposure.