Officials, Families Seek Clues in Rash of Pancreatic Cancer
Sunday Gazette-Mail › February 04, 2008
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OROVILLE, Calif. - Judy McInturf is making a list of the sick and the dead.
On it are old friends, her son's former co-worker, her daughter's friend, family acquaintances, their adult children, and, of course, her late husband, Haskel.See the full content of this document
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Officials, Families Seek Clues in Rash of Pancreatic Cancer
In hindsight, McInturf wonders if there could be a connection: Were her family and friends caught up in some sort of toxic web - and if so, what's the deadly thread that connects them?
State and county health officials are asking similar questions. Soon, they'll descend upon this industrial city in central Butte County to investigate an unusual concentration of pancreatic cancer diagnoses and deaths - 23 people in 2004-05, more than twice what would be expe...See the full content of this document
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