During the 1950s and 1960s,the Navajo people of Arizona and New Mexico who mined uranium for fuel for nuclear weapons and power plants developed lung cancer years after their exposure.This provides an example of which of the following?

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The development of lung cancer years after exposure to uranium is a late stochastic effect. Stochastic effects can occur randomly and have a probability of occurrence rather than a threshold dose, and they can appear after a long latent period.

During the 1950s and 1960s,the Navajo People of Arizona and New