Thursday, 21 March 2013 04:47
Former residents question state health finding on Coldwater Creek cancers
Radiation exposure from Coldwater Creek isn't responsible for increased cancer rates among north county residents. That's according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services which released the results of a study yesterday.
State epidemiologists studied the incidence and death rates of 27 types of cancer in six ZIP codes along the creek, but found that rates of the two cancer types most commonly caused by radiation exposure - leukemias and thyroid tumors - were the same or lower than would have been expected.
Former north county residents say the study was incomplete, because it didn't count cancer victims who had moved away from the area before getting sick.
Coldwater Creek had been contaminated by nuclear waste after World War II.
State epidemiologists studied the incidence and death rates of 27 types of cancer in six ZIP codes along the creek, but found that rates of the two cancer types most commonly caused by radiation exposure - leukemias and thyroid tumors - were the same or lower than would have been expected.
Former north county residents say the study was incomplete, because it didn't count cancer victims who had moved away from the area before getting sick.
Coldwater Creek had been contaminated by nuclear waste after World War II.
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