[CPEO-MEF] PAVE PAWS (MA) cancer debate

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cancer study triggers debate

By Robin Lord
Cape Cod Times (MA)
January 27, 2008

A longtime skeptic of the Air Force's PAVE PAWS early warning station in 
Sagamore has set his sights on the state health department.

Dr. Richard Albanese, a physician who works for the Air Force, claims a 
recent state Department of Public Health (DPH) study that ruled out the 
radar station as a primary cause of a rare cancer cluster among children 
on Cape Cod was flawed.

State health department officials and others say the study was 
scientifically legitimate.

The 11-month, $40,000 study compared the strength of the radar's beam 
that is hitting the homes of the sick children with sites that were not 
associated with someone who had been diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080127/NEWS/801270343/-1/NEWSLETTER100

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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