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Many students who were unable to get the combinations were cha Joe Lawrence, combina 40 to 50 complain university postal syste 'Cancer Warren E. AP Sctenct Cancer is not one equal oppc everyone with even-handed mi It strikes at random, certain some states or countries, and, mysterious "cluster" of cance will appear in some communil A CLUSTER of cancer cases i latest to attract attention. The i noticed that other children i School had been afflicted wit! recent years and told authorities State health officers checkc community of 20,000 people h Hndtfkin's riiRMSP nnri nthpr role past five years. They called this Experts from the Federal Ce Atlanta have been investigate more than a decade and are 1< case. They say there is little < are more than coincidences. "There is not much evidence ^VmL' "-.r' wun^gm P^fe* ^H^Hbw^SS^BBBhB / f had remeembered th< office box combii ir mail because abou nged "for security re; .university Dostmast J * itions were changed k ts were made aga ;m for "non-receipt o cluster t ?' w V V/ V Leary writer rtunity disease that strikes ilevolence. forms strike more often in every once in a while, a rs, far above the average, ty. n Rutherford, N.J., was the tinflioo nf n IamItbimU ?uuiv> vi a ivuAClllia VKU1U at Pierrepont Elementary i similar blood cancers in id records and found the tad 32 cases of leukemia, ited cancers reported in the figure abnormally high, nter for Disease Control in ng such local clusters for ooking into the Rutherford evidence that these clusters ! these clusters occur more "UNIQl 1 |j/ |?Tfii h HMBk UM fe. flinn i ir ' in n 11 in. jwjljxlu k"Bw BnGni^ ^ PMBH||bb|M^P whbm I jfg| V V I SBSuSE 1221 m < WWWTOgJTO ecause inst the :ases appe often than chance," says Dr. C Bureau of Epidemiology. "Th grouping might not mean som< Those investigations showed tl that noted in Rutherford and eai as Niles, 111., Elmwood, Wis clusters more than other cancel chance, Heath says. FYPRRTS (TRAM aw> CIVifl UIV 1' cuctai in Atlanta have been investigat more than a decade and are lo case. They say there is little e\ are more than coincidences. IF EVIDENCE of a cluste vestigators look at medical hist about personal habits and wor pollution levels and industrial anything in the environment i cancer. i *** ? 1,1 A iNuiionai cancer institute 1 landmark survey of cancer deat] M ? IE rasm V MB V ^ar ? SLACKS & ;weeds, wools, po corduroys ondf< PERED & 8LOI xndarin, stcxndarc rluh. nr hut+nn-r HREE PIECE SUITS iRROW TIES-LEATHER SHION OUTERWEAR VESTS-DRIVING Gl ggggg * 11CBBEEB ain Street TN^xtto thi ,. Kmajjkv,1?.: ^aaaBMBBBagia ar in some lark Heath of the center's 3 ^ is doesn't mean any one r^se sthing else." visuj lat childhood leukemia-like pe^ rlier in such diverse places xi j 1 ana suDuroan Atlanta- j^u *s but still near the level of that fronr deat Center for Disease Control Tv Ing such local clusters for __nr oking into the Rutherford H Idence that these clusters rate r arises, the field inories, interview residents Tv kins conditions, nflminp ' activity and try to find that might contribute to Norl area researchers conducted a pan) lis occurring in the nation's chai H CLOTH IPAWI^ jcnro 'lyester blends, ashion denim Li SON SHIRTS I, fifties, founded, iown collars & BLAZERS JACKETS - SHOES SWEATERS - BELTS nvK _ rnoK V ISijK e Wade Hampton doi \ comn \ counties between IS archers built geogn ally where cancer tie. IBS EXAMINATION I ted in several import the rates of different i cancer more than w< h rate than whites. ie survey showed the er of the breast, col ovary in the North i i also appear hig Dleum, lumber and ration. ese studies also fount is. With lung cance irican men are high h. Rut thp. hiffhAAt rn s, along the Gulf Cc landle and along -leston, S.C. to to Ja HNG' ] w Wil HHJ TTTX1 rm) ^^^SHpfiSnMcCermSS^^OAMBCOCK lunities >50 and 1999. From this data, the aphical cancer maps that show "hot spots" exist for different of millions of death certificates ant studies showing, for example, pflnpprs viipv rocHnnnllu *>?? - ??>.? 1*k J 1 VQ1U1MIUJ , IliCil U1C omen and nonwhitea have a higher re are generally higher rates for on, rectum, esophagus, bladder me lowrates in the South. Cancer her in areas near chemical, other types of industrial con 1 interesting exceptions to general r, for example, death rates for in the metropolitan areas of the tes are clustered in two southern >ast from Texas to the Florida a 300-mile coastal strip from cksonville, Fla. ??????_. t -f m mm i VISA' I | 1