Tried to link this but, was unsuccessful so, copy/paste. I love Fallon, lived here for 38 years BUT, this town has issues and anyone moving here should at LEAST be informed. If you disagree, I encourage you to find Floyd Sands and tell him. The following is a post he made on a forum about cancer clusters. My daughter Stephanie Suzanne Sands, late of the Fallon, Nevada childhood leukemia cluster, was the 2nd child diagnosed in this cluster. The "official cluster" includes 16 cases of ALL (Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia) and 1 case of AML (Acute Myelocytic Leukemia). The expected rate of incidence of ALL at the time of the cluster was approximately 3 cases per every 100,000 children per year. According to US Census2000 data Fallon, Nevada is home to 2,383 children. The rate of incidence of ALL in Fallon, Nevada is roughly 50 times what is expected according to SEER data. In OCT2002 I sponsored and conducted Stephanie's Walk-the Fallon volunteer health survey which revealed concurrent clusters of a number of other cancers including brain cancer, Hodgkin's Disease, NHL, and pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma. These other Fallon cancer clusters are ongoing and contemporary to the Fallon, Nevada childhodd leukemia cluster. The Fallon, Nevada childhood leukemia cluster is the most aggressive attack of cancer in medical history worldwide, in terms of time/spatial clustering. The Fallon, Nevada childhood leukemia cluster is no less than the 3rd officially recognized cancer cluster to strike Fallon since 1961; an adult leukemia cluster in 1960-61 which killed 13 adults, and an adult brain cancer cluster in the mid-to-late 1980's which killed 8 people. CDC and Nevada State Health Division claim to conducted an "exhaustive investigation" in the Fallon, Nevada cancer tragedy. This investigation by it's very design was doomed to failure from the outset. CDC's Fallon, Nevada effort represents it's 108th consecutive failure in identifying causes and contributors of known cancer clusters. From the official failure in Fallon, Nevada and in Calvine/Florine, CA, and elsewhere, parent and community health activists, scientists and Public Health professionals have joined together and created NDCA-the National Disease Cluster Alliance. NDCA will hold it's first full Board meeting Thursday, 25OCT2007 and will elect it's Board members and Officers. NDCA is developing a response model similar to that used by The American Red Cross in their disaster relief efforts. NDCA advises and mentors communities finding themselves with emerging disease clusters. NDCA facilitates cooperation and bridges between Academia, Public Health and various governmental agencies which have historically been in adversarial relationships. Floyd Sands
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