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		<title>Lyndhurst addresses cancer fear with new study</title>
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By Alexis Tarrazi
Senior Reporter
LYNDHURST (Oct. 1, 2008, 11:30 a.m.) — As the personal crusade of Lorraine Colabella — a former Lyndhurst resident diagnosed with multiple myeloma — gains national attention, more concerns and questions continue to arise over the state’s recent cancer study in the area. In an effort to address the anxiety, the Lyndhurst Health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/10/03/lyndhurst-addresses-cancer-fear-with-new-study/</link>
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		<title>San Diego Cancer Cluster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The San Diego Channel
Updated: 7:07 p.m. PST January 24, 2002
Experts To Investigate Cancer Cluster
Several Cancer Cases Found In Valley Center
VALLEY CENTER, Calif. &#8212; Some Valley Center parents may finally get answers to life and death questions about an unusually high number of cancer cases in the area, 10News reported.
County Leaders Starting To Listen
Medical experts from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/09/29/san-diego-cancer-cluster/</link>
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		<title>Local cancer study gains national attention</title>
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Local cancer study gains national attention
Date: Thursday, August 28 @ 11:39:36 MDT
Topic: Breaking News
 
By Alexis Tarrazi
Senior Reporter
LYNDHURST (Aug. 28, 2008, 1:40 p.m.) — The local crusade of Lorraine Colabella, the former Lyndhurst resident who is suffering from incurable multiple myeloma, recently spread to the national level when the National Disease Cluster Alliance shined its spotlight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/09/28/local-cancer-study-gains-national-attention/</link>
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		<title>Registration Form -PDF -No Disease Clusters Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Download the No Disease Clusters Anymore Fundraiser Registration Form
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		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/09/28/registration-form-pdf-no-disease-clusters-anymore/</link>
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		<title>Outside help tapped in Victor pollution case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outside help tapped in Victor pollution case
By Julie Sherwood
Messenger Post
Thu Aug 02, 2007, 11:31 AM EDT
Victor, N.Y. -
Professionals from California and the University of Rochester joined a dozen or so residents Tuesday at a Dryer Road home to try and speed an investigation regarding groundwater contamination.
State officials have set a 2008-09 time frame for completing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/09/10/outside-help-tapped-in-victor-pollution-case/</link>
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		<title>2nd Annual Trevor&#8217;s Trek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DATE: September 13, 2008
TIME: 11:00 A.M.
WHERE: The walk will start at St. Luke’s MSTI, Boise, Idaho.
The walk will proceed down Idaho Street to Capitol
ending at the steps of Boise City Hall, where a brief
ceremony will conclude the walk.
Sometimes the greatest distance
traveled is accomplished in just a few
steps. After Trevor Smith’s surgery for
brain cancer in November, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/09/09/2nd-annual-trevors-trek/</link>
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		<title>Waste Coal Cogeneration Plant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Waste Coal Cogeneration Plant
On August 25, 2008, scientists from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) held a public meeting in Hazleton, Pennsylvania about the results of their investigation into the polycythemia vera cancer cluster in this area. The main point being reported in the press is that the federal agency confirmed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/09/01/waste-coal-cogeneration-plant/</link>
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		<title>Cancer cluster confirmed in northeast Pennsylvania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cancer cluster confirmed in northeast Pennsylvania
August 25, 2008 - 10:08pmBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Associated Press Writer
HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) - Nearly a year after federal epidemiologists first sounded the alarm over a cluster of rare blood cancers in northeastern Pennsylvania, their research has zeroed in on a hardscrabble region 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia that is home to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/09/01/cancer-cluster-confirmed-in-northeast-pennsylvania/</link>
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		<title>Gene Found For Rare And Deadly Chidhood Cancer Neuroblastoma</title>
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Gene Found For Rare And Deadly Chidhood Cancer Neuroblastoma
27 Aug 2008   
US scientists have found that mutations of a gene called anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) were behind most incidences of hereditary neuroblastoma, a rare and deadly childhood cancer, and they also discovered that the same mutations played an important role in high risk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/09/01/gene-found-for-rare-and-deadly-chidhood-cancer-neuroblastoma/</link>
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		<title>Plans nixed for BP asphalt plant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plans nixed for BP asphalt plant
(http://www.post-trib.com/1129553,asphalt.article)
August 27, 2008
By GITTE LAASBY Post-Tribune staff writer
HAMMOND — BP Whiting has scrapped its plans for an asphalt plant in Hammond.
In a letter to the city of Hammond, the refinery has withdrawn its petition for conditional use and developmental variance for a property at 1304 129th St. across from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/09/01/plans-nixed-for-bp-asphalt-plant/</link>
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