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Radon causes lung cancer in the miner population occupationally exposed underground to mine air of uranium mines [1–3] or ore mines [4, 5]. There were reports about higher incidence of lung cancer also from ore mines of Slovakia and there was a tendency to ascribe the higher incidence of this cancer to the radon exposure underground [6–8].
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Beno, M. (1999). Cytogenetic Risks in Gold-Ore Miners in Slovakia. In: Baumstark-Khan, C., Kozubek, S., Horneck, G. (eds) Fundamentals for the Assessment of Risks from Environmental Radiation. NATO Science Series, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4585-5_8
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