The Acreage Cancer Study

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A Port Clinton cancer cluster?

By Catharine Hadley

Port Clinton News Herald

July 15, 2010

PORT CLINTON -- Is it possible Port Clinton has its own cancer cluster?

A former resident will host a meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Our Guest Inn in hopes of answering that question.

Maria(Claus) Konoff, now a resident of Ottawa Hills, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer a week after she gave birth to her first child.

Years later, the 1985 graduate of Port Clinton High School learned the same thing had happened to one of her friends.

Last year, she learned about the Clyde cancer cluster -- an unusual concentration of cancer cases within a specific area. She talked to friends and used a social networking site to find out how many other people she knew also had been diagnosed with cancer.

The answer was "too many."

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State: Cancer rates average in Davisville
By Chris Church

North East Independent

July 16, 2010

NORTH KINGSTOWN — The Department of Health announced this week that it did not find any evidence of a cancer cluster in the Davisville section of town after a request from Rep.Kenneth Carter (D-Dist. 31) to investigate the issue.

“The essence is the population got older, ergo there is more cancer,” said Department of Health spokeswoman Helen Drew.

Dr.John Fulton of the Rhode Island Cancer Registry conducted the study last month by reviewing cancer diagnoses for residents in Davisville from 1987 through 2008. The registry has been documenting and tracking information on every person diagnosed with cancer in the state since 1986.

Fulton also used data from the 1990 and 2000 censuses to compute average annual age-adjusted cancer rates.

“The increase in newly diagnosed cancer cases in the Davisville community between 1987 and 2008 is consistent with (the) greater number of older people living in the community,” Fulton wrote. “When you adjust for the increase in age and calculate the number of cancers per 100,000 people, the actual rates of cancer (number of cases per 100,000 people) are no different from the rest of Rhode Island, and for women may be lower.”

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No oil leaking as BP conducts tests in well

By the CNN Wire Staff

CNN.com

July 16, 2010

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- For the first time in nearly three months, oil has stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico as BP proceeds with a highly anticipated test designed to measure pressure within its ruptured oil well.

The move is being lauded as a positive step, accompanied by a strong note of caution that the cutoff is simply part of the test, as BP and government experts assess how the well is holding up.

The test got under way Thursday after two days of delays, first as government scientists scrutinized testing procedures and then as BP replaced a leaking piece of equipment known as a choke line.

The oil stopped flowing early Thursday afternoon, according to BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells. And aseries of cameras below the surface clearly showed the halt -- a far different scene from the images day after day of a relentless flow.

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