No Cancer Cluster Found In Carlsbad
Written by admin on June 29, 2010
A new analysis of data from Carlsbad shows no evidence of a “cancer cluster” of any type, state officials said Monday as they held a town hall-style gathering.
“In each case, (the number of cancer incidents) fell inside the expected range,” said Dr. Donald Lyman, head of the state Department of Public Health’s Chronic Disease and Injury Control Division.
“There is no unusual pattern,” he said.
Lyman and other state officials were in Carlsbad on Monday night responding to concerns raised by some residents, particularly parents of children with cancer.
A group of them has been calling for the Carlsbad Unified School District to test the soil, water and air at Kelly Elementary School, saying there is a high number of children and teachers with cancer there.
Asked Monday night if he would send his children to that school, Lyman said he would have no hesitancy in doing so.
I actually didn’t attend Kelly Elementary but I did attend the junior high right across the street as well as the high school right down the road. When I first heard of this, it was pretty freaky – but, the reports seem pretty clear that there isn’t much connection between any of the so called ideas. Still, talk about worrisome…