CAIRS early lung cancer detection program
Subtitle: report
By: Canadian Institute for Radiation Safety
Series: Boojum Research collection ; miscellaneous
Publisher: CARIS, Canadian Institute for Radiation Safety
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Lungs -- Cancer.; Miners -- Diseases.; Uranium mines and mining -- Health aspects -- Ontario.; Occupational diseases -- Ontario.
Description: Provides information about the development and purpose of the CAIRS program which was established due to the abnormally high rates of lung cancer among miners from the Elliot Lake uranium mine.  The institute provides assistance to miners who are at risk due to exposure to radiation in the mining environment.
Notes: Copy donated by M. Kalin, Boojum Research

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Table of contents: value: CAIRS and the uranium miners of Ontario; value: CAIRS early lung cancer detection program: how it works; value: CAIRS early lung cancer detection program summary; value: Questions and answers about the CAIRS early lung cancer detection program; value: Statistical data: distribution of sputum samples 1986-1989; value: Board of Governors of CAIRS; value: Nuke/Anti-nuke.