Cancer cluster confirmed in northeast Pennsylvania

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 21:28 in Earth & Climate

Nearly a year after federal epidemiologists first sounded the alarm over a cluster of rare blood cancers in northeastern Pennsylvania, their research has zeroed in on a hardscrabble region 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia that is home to several Superfund sites and a power plant fired by waste coal.

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