San Juan County asks federal lawmakers for cancer funding
The Utah Health Department has found that Monticello has an unusually high rate of lung cancer.
Members of the town’s Victims of Mill Tailings Exposure committee say dust from an old uranium mine nearby could be to blame. San Juan County commissioners are in Washington, D.C., this week to ask federal lawmakers for a bill that would provide funding for early detection and treatment based on the new data.
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