[CPEO-MEF] Cancer study near MMR (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State to pursue Cape cancer study

By ROBIN LORD
Cape Cod Times (MA)
February 7, 2006

SANDWICH - An in-depth study of cancer rates in children on the Upper 
Cape will be launched in the coming weeks after state health officials 
found elevated rates of the disease in the southeastern section of Sandwich.

Researchers looking at data between 1995 and 2002, and between 2003 and 
2005, found 17 cases of childhood cancers townwide.

But five of those cases between 1995 and 2002 were in children living in 
what is known as census tract 0135 - an area of town bounded to the west 
by Quaker Meetinghouse Road, to the north by Route 6 and to the south 
and west by the Mashpee and Barnstable town lines.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/stateto7.htm

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