Elevated Cancer Level Found in Pa. - AP

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Elevated Cancer Level Found in Pa.

Thursday October 25, 2007 6:01 PM

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM

Associated Press Writer

HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) - The federal government found
an elevated number of cases of a rare blood cancer in
northeastern Pennsylvania but uncovered no link to any
possible cause in the environment.

The U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry became involved after residents expressed
concern about polycythemia (pah-lee-sy-THEE'-mee-ah)
vera, or PCV, a cancer that results in the overproduction
of red blood cells and can lead to heart attack or stroke.

“We did not find any environmental links to the PV cases
we interviewed,” Vince Seaman, the lead researcher, said
Thursday in an e-mail. “That doesn't mean that there
weren't any - we just didn't see anything with the
information we collected.”

The agency reported on its findings Wednesday night at a
heated community meeting at which residents of this low-
income coal region accused the government of minimizing
the threat posed by numerous environmental hazards,
including a former toxic waste dump and waste coal-fired
power plants.

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[Warpy]

1. Three Mile Island, maybe?

I had an uncle with PCV and it eventually clogged his coronary arteries and killed him.

He was a nuclear physicist.

[TheWraith]

3. TMI is in south-central PA. NT

[baldguy]

2. "...no link to any possible cause in the environment."

R-r-r-i-i-i-gh-t-t-t...

[Bitwit1234]

4. Since it is in such proximately to coal mines could that be it.

[TheWraith]

5. Most likely. Even if they had no direct contact, probably tons of particulates in the air. NT

[tom_paine]

6. All manner of mining done in the mountain plateaus around Hazleton

Take a look at Google earth sometime. It's not very pretty, even from space.

Undoubtedly, that place is a toxic stew, including it's drinking water.

Poor bastards, but most of America and Amerika alike share it's fate in some way or another.