Why Would Mining Protect Men From Prostate Cancer?
Nobody knows why but miners tend to be at a much lower risk of prostate cancer. In "Could Mining Be Protective Against Prostate Cancer? A Study and Literature Review" researchers from Australia document a huge decrease in this most common of all cancers afflicting men. Before anyone hauls out the "healthy worker effect" note that the risk of prostate cancer in these miners, only 35% that of non-miners, is much lower than would be predicted even from those studies in which a significantly decreased risk has been attributed to the effect.
