Comments on: Cancer Cluster Confirmed In Pa. Region

Residents Northwest Of Philadelphia Four Times As Likely To Develop Rare Blood Cancer

[apprxam]

Law suits are coming. Contact Aaron Brockovich et al.


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Posted by drivelphobe

Nope, RePugNaCon did away with the right not to be poisoned by big business. Nothing for those trampled by progress.

[apprxam]

There....John McCain''s nuclear waste problem solved. The Village of Hazleton substituted for Yucca Mountain which they can now cut down for those Alberta oil sludge deposits. YEAH....AMERICA WINS!!!?!

[drivelphobe]

I thought PV was Pemphigus Vulgaris, not polycythemia vera. No wonder everyone gets confused. Are the doctors certain or are they fighting over diagnoses as usual, defending their own specialties.

How unfortunate for the inhabitants of the region. Law suits are coming. Contact Aaron Brockovich et al.

[cbsfan73]

Funny thing; most people out there have no clue what you are talking about when you mention Superfund.

So goes the awareness of your average American that is brain numbed from lack of reading and TV "reality" shows.

[babooph]

Go easy on the corporate death poluters-they had to pay big sums for lobbyists to bribe our politicians for the right to kill & escape punishment.

[brianbwb-2009]

"Environmental officials shut down the site in 1979, and it was later placed on the federal Superfund list and cleaned up."

Riight, "cleaned up" simply meant "buried under a few feet of earth then the taxpayer paid millions of dollars for the pretense".

A soil analysis can quickly and easily determine if the chemicals supposedly "cleaned up" are still in the ground, and if they are, the contractor who did the "cleanup work" should be facing jail.

[godseyesore-2009]

Well water or not, you can''t count on either these days. You can thank corporate america and its right wing ideals for such vile conditions. Think about that when choosing leaders and places to spend hard earned money.

This scares me. I moved from Carbon County in 2000. Most of my family, however, still works in this area.

Should I or should I not be thankful I grew up on well water?

[eggy1620]

The ATSDR web page for this investigation mentions that more than half the people who have tested positive for the JAK2 mutation do not appear to have gotten it from an environmental source. That implies an inherited disease. Of course clusters will appear in areas where extended families are a significant part of the population. And rural areas have large extended families in which disease genes concentrate.

[u-r-right]

If the right tracking and research were carried out, I would bet we''d find that there are clusters like this of various sizes and types throughout the country. A concentrated effort to find the culprit in each case would be the next step. Yet it seems we walk around deaf and blind.

[u-r-right]

If the right tracking and research were carried out, I would bet we''d find that there are clusters like this of various sizes and types throughout the country. A concentrated effort to find the culprit in each case would be the next step. Yet it seems we walk around deaf and blind.