Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > fwiw, we had a cancer cluster in our neighborhood growing up. way too > many leukemias and severe cancers for the statistics. >
Yeah, well you have to account for the zillion of things that affect health that are in the environment like radon gas, etc etc. For example i bet more people die of sea-related disease in T&T than in Wisconsin. Thus T&T is a "disease cluster". More interesting, Doctors themselves can create disease clusters: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113571111 Three weeks after her first appointment, Tremblay went into the hospital and had her uterus and ovaries removed a total hysterectomy. After the operation, her doctor explained what he had found. "It was what he called the seed of cancer," says Tremblay. "It wasn't cancer, but it had the potential of developing into it." Twenty-nine years old is pretty young for a hysterectomy. But in the mid-'70s in Lewiston, Maine, lots of women were getting them. Tremblay says she herself knew a bunch. "My boss that I had when I worked at Kmart, she had one shortly after I did," Tremblay recalls. "One of my friends that I've had since I was 6 years old, she had one. Just about anyone you talked to would say 'Oh I had a hysterectomy!' 'Oh yeah I did so and so did mine!' There was a lot of them. I do remember that ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335840 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
