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Cancer?
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Everywhere I turn these days I come across families with a cancer connection ...seems to be running rampant.
I have been to three funerals in the last ten days.
Might just be me ...anyone else seeing a lot of cancer around them cos ...it got me to thinking ...twenty five years ago we had Chernobyl.
At the time the press was full of reports saying ...in twenty five years we will see a huge rise in cases of cancer ...along with new cancers.
Well twenty five years just passed ...any connection ...were they right?
I have been to three funerals in the last ten days.
Might just be me ...anyone else seeing a lot of cancer around them cos ...it got me to thinking ...twenty five years ago we had Chernobyl.
At the time the press was full of reports saying ...in twenty five years we will see a huge rise in cases of cancer ...along with new cancers.
Well twenty five years just passed ...any connection ...were they right?
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It's only recently that some areas of North Wales have been able to resume sales of lamb again after Chernobyl.
That said, leukaemia rates in the village of Seascale are about five times higher than the national average. The Government are flummoxed as to what might be causing the leukaemia. The village is two miles from Sellafield.
In my family, my sister-in-law has a serious congenital heart defect. It's rare, the chances of getting it are about ten million to one. There's a girl two villages away who has the same problems, and one two villages the other way who's got an equally rare hip defect. My in laws live quite near Sellafield and their house is also on the top of a Lakes fell, so all the Chernobyl rain hit them too.
only other person whos died while i been alive is my grandad from motor neuron which is uncureable..dang.
Even though there are obvious rises?
That's what the Government study about Sellafield said. Apparently on a national scale you get clusters of cancer in the same way differently coloured ball-bearings cluster together in a petri dish for no apparent reason. It's just one of those things.
Of course it's a huge coincidence that the clusters of cancer are two miles down the road from a nuclear power station.