Cytogenetic Risks in Gold-Ore Miners in Slovakia

Radon causes lung cancer in the miner population occupationally exposed underground to mine air of uranium mines [1, 2, 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, 7, 8].