Cancer occurance high in small Texas town???!


Question: The town of D'hanis Texas has a pop. of approx. 700. They have had 5 cases of childhood leukemia in the last 9 yrs. Most of the children have lived in the same side of the small town. Could this be environmental???????


Answers: The town of D'hanis Texas has a pop. of approx. 700. They have had 5 cases of childhood leukemia in the last 9 yrs. Most of the children have lived in the same side of the small town. Could this be environmental???????

It certainly could be, but you need advice from an epidemiologist and you need to have details on the specific type of leukemia, date and age at onset, addresses from conception. There are clusters of events and coincidences do occur and it is very difficult to assign cause and effect.

Does the state of Texas have a medical officer of health or somesuch you could ask to address this?

Perhaps. Have you seen Erin Brockovich?

absolutly. It could be anything.

possably but it is not realy that high for it to be enviromental i would think that number would be higher or fewer years in between

It would be hard to say. But you would have to look at that as a very high percentage for such a small population.

It would be important to see if they live near any Large power lines or there are any industrial sites near them that could be dumping stuff into the local water systems. Even though it may not make it to the drinking water is still the environment.

The bad thing about this is the companies pay big money to keep info like this tightly restricted to the public.

Good luck! Your best bet would be to contact a local environmental protection agency and see if they will come do any testing. You will probably have to find a PRIVATE organization as the government often does not take things like this seriously or act in a timely matter.

from toxians in air and water and even the food we eat coz of industrial pollution today in urbane regions we find early maturity among american girls the spread of cancer and offcourse sometimes diseases as deadly and fatal as leukamia hope this answers the question

Yes it can.

Sour gas wells, refineries in your area?

Are there any benzine pipelines in the town? there is another town in TX that is experiencing health problems due to the pipeline leak and its effecting offspring of the exposed. what type of industry is in the area???

I have read about your town .i understood
that they weren't sure what was causing it.
I would like to know what the doctors decided
the cause was.I believe something was said
power lines on towers.It' a Blood disease that
white corpuscles eats the red and no new ones
can be supplied. Could this have happened in the same family,fathers,uncles or anyone that
could pass it down through birth. or marriage?

research electrical things. How are the wires in the town??? High voltage affects possibly.





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