[CPEO-MEF] Fallon, NV cancer cluster

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Scientists: Environment may factor into cancer mystery

Frank X. Mullen
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL (NV)
October 16, 2007

Scientists in Reno announced Monday preliminary findings that might help 
solve the mystery of the Fallon leukemia cluster.

Those at a University of Nevada, Reno symposia Monday theorized the 
epidemic might have been fueled by a one-two punch of environmental 
factors that harmed the genes of the children who developed leukemia.

The first genetic change might have occurred while the children were in 
their mothers' wombs or during infancy. The next genetic change would 
have been later, just before the onset of leukemia, a cancer of the blood.

"What primes the pump?" asked Mark Witten, a toxicologist at the 
University of Arizona who has been researching the Fallon cluster and a 
similar outbreak in Sierra Vista, Ariz., since 2002. "That's what we're 
trying to determine.

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For the entire article, see
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071016/NEWS04/710160361/1002

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Lenny Siegel
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