[CPEO-MEF] Fallon (NV) and elsewhere - the cancer cluster question

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Activists form alliance to fight cancer clusters

Frank X. Mullen
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL (NV)
August 13, 2007

When a cancer cluster is detected in a community, parents are alarmed, 
government agencies are skeptical, fear stalks the streets and residents 
start to worry about property values.

"We read about this happening in Fallon and in other places, and now 
it's happening to us," said Michael Barry of Victor, N.Y., where a toxic 
solvent plume extends beneath dozens of homes and 16 people have died of 
a cancer that a citizens' group believes is linked to the toxin.

"But we have help. The National Disease Cluster Alliance brings a lot of 
expertise and perspective to what's happening here. There's a lot of 
resistance on the part of town and state governments to face what's 
happening. The alliance is helping people understand and get moving," 
Barry said.

The National Disease Cluster Alliance was born in the Fallon leukemia 
epidemic, which has sickened 17 children and killed three since 1997, 
and in a suspected cancer cluster in Sacramento. The parents of cancer 
patients, health activists and scientists who have investigated other 
clusters make up the board of directors.

...

For the entire article, see
http://news.rgj.com//apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070813/NEWS/708130338/1321

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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