[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Ft. Detrick (MD) cancer debate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cancer-cluster theory on paper, rage in father's heart

By Petula Dvorak
Washington Post Columnist
August 6, 2010

It began with a neighbor dying, then an uncle who lived down the street, 
then all the livestock on one Maryland farm fell dead, one cow after 
another.

...

"There have only been a few reported cancer clusters that have proven to 
be real clusters," Melissa Bondy, a professor of epidemiology at the 
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, wrote in the 
Journal of the National Cancer Institute. "People get alarmed when they 
hear about cancers at various sites in an area. There have been some 
that epidemiologists have been able to untangle, but most cancer 
clusters have not been well documented. They usually don't pan out to be 
anything."

Try telling that to Randy White, whose 30-year-old daughter died of 
brain tumors in 2008. Now his ex-wife has stage four renal cancer, and 
another daughter has stomach tumors.

White grew up in Frederick and raised his family there. But when the 
Whites moved to Florida and began getting sick, a doctor looked 
collectively at their illnesses and told them that they weren't genetic, 
they were environmental.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/05/AR2010080506207.html

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Lenny Siegel
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