[CPEO-MEF] Cape Cod (MA) cancer study

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Value of Cape cancer study at risk

By Robin Lord
Cape Cod Times (MA)
July 31, 2007

The chances of figuring out what could be causing elevated cancer rates 
among Upper Cape youth are limited unless more parents of stricken 
children participate in a study, says Suzanne Condon, the assistant 
commissioner of the state Department of Public Health.

"Parents have a difficult time (talking about it), and we sympathize," 
she said "Yet, if we don't have a sufficient level of information, it 
hampers our efforts to uncover anything that might be meaningful."

...

Condon said she could not predict when the final report on the childhood 
cancer study will be finished. But another small study of elevated 
Ewing's sarcoma cases on Cape Cod should be complete by late summer or 
early fall, she said.

At the urging of residents, state public health officials agreed last 
fall to hire Broadcast Signal Labs of Cambridge to take measurements of 
the microwave radiation emitted by the Air Force PAVE PAWS radar 
facility in Sagamore.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070731/NEWS/707310336/-1/NEWSLETTER02

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