Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Northeast Pennsylvania Polycythemia Vera Investigation
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Northeast Pennsylvania Polycythemia Vera (PV) Investigation Background In 2004, using state cancer registry records, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADOH) found a PV cluster in northeast Pennsylvania. PV is part of a disease group called myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), which is a group… Read more
Researchers making new push in cancer cluster search
www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-tamaqua-cancer-cluster-20120430,0,6418002.story By Andrew McGill, Of The Morning Call 11:26 p.m. EDT, April 30, 2012 After a long year, Pennsylvania’s coal country still knows only three things for sure. People are getting cancer in the region, rare cancer. They’re dying. And no one can say why. In a Centers for Disease Control investigation that has already… Read more
Doubt on cancer cluster legislation
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-cancer-cluster-legislation-20110710,0,6315339.story By Andrew McGill, Of The Morning Call 9:57 p.m. EDT, July 10, 2011 Some fear measure, which would create ‘first-responder’ task force, may not be genuine effort to protect public health in Carbon, Schuylkill, Luzerne counties. Merle Wertman has been kept waiting a long time. Eight years ago, doctors diagnosed him with polycythemia vera,… Read more
Coal region still far from finding cause for mysterious cancer
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-tamaqua-cancer-cluster-20110618,0,2997474.story By Andrew McGill, OF THE MORNING CALL 10:35 p.m. EDT, June 18, 2011 Researchers studying a cancer cluster say they’re still mastering the basics in an investigation that’s stretched five years. Five years have passed since federal researchers first came to Pennsylvania’s coal region seeking the origins of a mysterious disease. And while numerous… Read more
Experts discuss likely sources of the rare blood illnesses in the three-county area
http://www.tnonline.com/2011/jun/16/it-radon-fly-ash-or-something-else Thursday, June 16, 2011 By DONALD R. SERFASS dserfass@tnonline.com Is it radon, fly ash or something else? Is radon the culprit in an unusually high number of cases of a rare blood illness in Schuylkill, Carbon and Luzerne counties? Or is it fly ash? Or maybe something else? Those possibilities are being examined, along… Read more
National cancer prevention study looking for local volunteers
http://citizensvoice.com/news/national-cancer-prevention-study-looking-for-local-volunteers-1.1140396#axzz1LCf5p0Sg By Erin L. Nissley, Staff Writer Published: May 2, 2011 Next month, Northeastern Pennsylvanians will have an opportunity to participate in a groundbreaking national study that will examine how lifestyle, genetics and the environment can cause or prevent cancer. The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3 is seeking to enroll up to 500,000 people… Read more
Rare blood disorder
http://www.tnonline.com/node/147135 Rare blood disorder Study will look at air and water quality Reported on Friday, October 29, 2010 By DONALD R. SERFASS dserfass@tnonline.com DONALD R. SERFASS/TIMES NEWS Members of the Tri-County Polycythemia Vera Citizens Advistory Committee pose questions late Thursday to experts who will study the local air and water quality. From left: CAC chairman… Read more
Polycythemia vera advisory group announces contaminant study
http://www.tnonline.com/node/145322 Reported on Saturday, October 23, 2010 Polycythemia vera advisory group announces contaminant study Tamaqua Mayor Chris Morrison, Chairman of the Tri-County Polycythemia Community Advisory Committee (CAC), announced Wednesday that Equity Environmental Engineering (EEE) has been chosen by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to… Read more
What is Polcythemia vera?
http://www.tnonline.com/node/136550 What is Polcythemia vera? Reported on Thursday, September 23, 2010 Polycythemia vera (PV) is a blood disease in which the bone marrow makes too many red blood cells, causing a thickening of the blood. PV usually takes years to develop. Most people are diagnosed with PV later in life, most often around age 60… Read more
CANCER CLUSTER MONEY IS SAFE
http://www.brctv13.com/local_news.shtml CANCER CLUSTER MONEY IS SAFE May 7, 2010 The search for answers in a rare cancer cluster will continue. $2.5 million was earmarked to further study the polycythemia vera cancer cluster in Carbon, Schuylkill, and Luzerne Counties. But, sources at the Centers for Disease Control say the agency was considering reprogramming that funding and… Read more
