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Lung cancer has been one of the most dreaded diagnosis in medicine, and has increased dramatically in the 20th century. It is critical to get proper treatment for a diagnosis...
Miners who spend at least 20 years as strip-mine drillers have a 61 percent chance of contracting silicosis, a virulent form of black lung. No other job in coal mining has such a high risk.
In the general population, emphysema usually develops in older individuals with a long smoking history. However, there is also a form of emphysema that runs in families. People with familial emphysema have a hereditary deficiency of...