[CPEO-MEF] PAVE PAWS radar, Massachusetts Military Reservation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PAVE PAWS cancer link gets new look from state

By ROBIN LORD
Cape Cod Times (MA)
January 17, 2007

State officials plan to expand their study of childhood cancer rates on 
Cape Cod to include a look at whether the PAVE PAWS radar facility in 
Sagamore could be playing a part in the unusual number of cases of a 
rare form of bone cancer in the region.

Suzanne Condon, assistant commissioner at the state Department of Public 
Health, said yesterday that Cambridge-based research group Broadcast 
Signal Lab will be hired to measure the levels of radiation from the 
PAVE PAWS radar station in Sagamore that is hitting the homes of more 
than a dozen Cape residents who have been diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma 
in the past few years.

While no contract has been signed, funding for the $40,000 project has 
been approved and Broadcast Signal has agreed to take it on, Condon 
said. The research effort will likely begin in March. ''We worked hard 
to make this happen,'' she said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/pavepaws17.htm

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