[CPEO-BIF] Spikes in Endicott (NY) cancers over IBM spill site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cancer rates higher near Endicott spill

Study: Spike in kidney, testicular malignancies

BY TOM WILBER
Binghampton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
August 24, 2005 

ENDICOTT -- George Kretzmer was not surprised Tuesday evening when he
learned that he and others living south of the former IBM plant had
significantly elevated rates of birth defects and two types of cancers. 

The study included an area of about 300 acres polluted by solvents first
discovered seeping from the IBM plant on North Street in 1979. It also
included several blocks west of Jefferson Avenue, polluted by an
undetermined source. 

It concluded that people living near the polluted area have higher rates
of birth defects, testicular cancer and kidney cancer than would be
expected. The study was undertaken after residents learned they had been
exposed to low levels of industrial solvents pushing into basements
through a process called vapor intrusion. The study takes into account
22 types of cancers from 1980 to 2001. It concludes that elevated rates
of testicular and kidney cancers during that time are "unlikely due to
chance alone." 

But it does not explain what caused them. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/topstories/stories/to082405s185842.shtml



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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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