[CPEO-MEF] Fallon (NV) leukemia cluster

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cancer Cluster: Tracking a Killer in Nevada

By Jeffrey Norris
UCSF Today
March 9, 2007

An environment rife with arsenic, tungsten, cobalt and jet fuel does not 
seem adequate to explain an unusually high incidence of childhood 
leukemia - three deaths and 16 cases in all - that first struck Fallon, 
Nevada, almost a decade ago. Despite a major public health investigation 
launched by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC), no smoking weapon of a caliber sufficient to account for the 
cluster has been found.

Still, driven by lingering pain and frustration, affected families in 
this rural town - 60 miles east of Reno on a stretch of US Highway 50 
dubbed "the Loneliest Road in America" - are determined that the search 
continue.

UCSF molecular epidemiologist Joseph Wiemels, PhD, is one of three 
scientists recently awarded new research grants to study the Fallon 
cluster. Local families had a hand in moving politicians to appropriate 
the money and, along with the usual scientist "peers," in deciding which 
research proposals to support.

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For the entire article, see
http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/200703082.html

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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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