San Diego University Cancer Cluster: Breast Cancer and EMF link.

[Mike 03]

Dozens of staff, faculty, and professors rallied on the U.C. San Diego campus Wednesday over fears that their workplace is unsafe.

It's a story the 10News I Team first highlighted on Monday.

"Our rate of breast Cancer is 4 to 5 times higher than that of the general population," said Literature Chair Nina Zhiri told the crowd gathered around her holding signs and a mock coffin.

There have been 8 cases of breast cancer in six years among those who work in the Literature building. Two women have died.

More at link.

This is both fascinating and tragic. I urge you to check this story out. EMF has, for years now, been one of those suspicious causative factors for cancer. Sad as this case is, maybe it will lead us to the truth.


http://www.10news.com/news/18743329/detail.html

[aquart]

1. The LITERATURE building?

Somebody needs to do a sick building survey of that place.

[KT2000]

2. There has NEVER

been a case where a cluster of illess is declared to be caused by an environmnetal factor.
There will be investigations upon investigations but there will never be a direct link drawn.

The whole area of environmental connection to illness is nothing but corrupt and every agency plays along. The primary factor in force is fear of liability. Anyone who does not play along invites disaster in their personal and professional lives.
It starts with inadequate testing which the EPA maintains as policy.

[otohara]

3. So My Favorite Electric Throw

should be thrown out?

I love my electric throw.

[Contrary1]

4. "8 cases of breast cancer in six years"

The article should have stated the total number of different women who were employed at the Lit. building in those six years. Also, in many cases, the breast cancer has already been growing for several years before it is detected.

When I was diagnosed in '97, the stats were that one in nine women would develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Now, it is slightly more than one out of eight.

I'm not saying there is no connection, just not enough details in the story to form an opinion.

[zazen]

5. o/t but poor San Diego--we couldn't wait to get rid of Chancellor Fox here in NC

There was a faculty revolt and they finally ousted her.

I'm not denying EMF possibilities. We had a cancer cul-de-sac in my last neighborhood--one died of recurring BC, the 12 year old across the street got bone cancer, and I got early stage BC. And someone who had lived in a house there earlier had had leukemia. EPA came out and found "nothing wrong." Whatever.

But, women academics are typically hounded into not having kids if they want to move up the tenure ranks, and the humanities have the most competitive jobs of all. So you've got a higher risk population right there of women who never got a break from ovulating or a decrease in breast density from breastfeeding. You've also probably got a higher Jewish population, and they are more at risk for the BRCA gene mutation. You probably also have more mammographic screening, which is catching earlier stage breast cancers (although sadly in this case, not soon enough, with two dead from the disease.) So these could also increase the rate.