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- A 1995 report published by American Public Health Association found : excess mortality rates for lung cancer, pneumoconioses and other respiratory diseases, and tuberculosis for Navajo uranium miners.
- Increasing duration of exposure to underground uranium mining was associated with increased mortality risk for all three diseases & The most important long-term mortality risks for the Navajo uranium miners continue to be lung cancer and pneumoconioses and other nonmalignant respiratory diseases . That is to say, not stomach cancer, which the Navajo people naturally have a higher rate of experiencing than the national US average.