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Combating Disease: Coal from mass extinction era linked to lung cancer mystery
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2010-04-23 09:00:04
Description: For years, women in China’s Xuan Wei County in Yunnan Province — women who never smoked cigarettes — have been plagued by lung cancer. The mortality rates among female nonsmokers are the world’s highest — up to 20 times higher than average in China. A new study sheds light on the cancer epidemic and points to an unlikely source: volcanic eruptions occurring millions of years ago.

Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed audio from freesound.iua.upf.edu.
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