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Study Finds Exposure to Phthalates May Increase Children's Cancer Risk
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT CANCER CENTER - March 14, 2022 "Childhood, but not gestational (in utero) phthalate exposure was associated with...
Study: Early Results Show Fertilizer Chemicals in Drinking Water Could Lead to Pediatric Cancer
NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA - February 16, 2022 "High amounts of fertilizer and other ag chemicals in Nebraska drinking water could be...
Cancer Cases in Kids Are Rising. Some Experts Blame Toxic Chemicals.
Public Health Watch - December 3, 2021 “As we see this explosion in environmental chemicals in human populations, it’s entirely likely...
Houston Residents Sue City, Railroad, for Poisoning & Contamination Caused by Creosote Wood Preserva
Beyond Pestacides - December 2, 2021 "the community is in the midst of a childhood leukemia cancer cluster, with disease rates five times...
Locals Protest Pesticides Linked to Childhood Cancers
Sun-Gazette News - November 3, 2021 "Studies found that these pesticides increase risk of a child developing specific forms of cancers...
'A lifetime of damage' on a creosote plume in Houston's Fifth Ward
Scalawag - August 3, 2021 "Two years into state health researchers' investigation, in January 2021, the state health department reported...
Ambient Air Pollution: Health Hazards to Children
PEDIATRICS - June 2021 "Ambient air pollution and some of its constituents [vehicular traffic, coal-fired power plants, hydraulic...
More Than A Third Of The Students In An Australian Primary School Have Cancer
BARWON HEADS, Australia - April 12, 2021 "More than a third of the students from Kristie Ainsworth’s Barwon Heads Primary School located...
State Study Suggests Link Between Elevated Rates of Childhood Cancer in Wilmington in the 1990s and
Press Release, Department of Public Health, State of Massachusetts - March 24, 2021 "Results of the study suggest an association between...
A Push for Answers About the Environmental Causes of Child Cancer
Jennifer Sass, Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Dr. Philip J. Landrigan and Simon Strong - January 19, 2021 "Prevention is the cure for child/teen...
'It's very scary': Childhood leukemia cluster frightens neighborhood in Houston's Fifth Ward
Hannah Dellinger - January 22, 2021 "Another cancer cluster in Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens has been identified by a state...
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