Subject: (Maisch) Re Seattle airport cancer (fwd)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 053432 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 13:37:46
From: Don Maisch
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: Seattle airport cancer (fwd)
Hi Roy
The only contact I have about the Sea-Tac cancer cases is the KIRO
Eyewithness News medical advisor Dr Bill Crounse on:
Bcrounse@overlakehospital.org
I have previously asked to be put in contact with the Sea-Tac community
activists but have had no reply.
>.......It is logical that aircraft fuel and other chemicals should
>be suspected.... BUT, if these folks knew more about the way EMF/EMR
>interacts biologically (perhaps catalyzing chemicals), they would
>surely add EMF/EMR to their list of suspicions......
>
>Does anyone "out there" have contact with this group???
>
>(This is a situation one would not expect to be unique to Seattle!!!)
>
>Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
>rbeavers@llion.org................
>...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness...
>.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............
>
> KIRO Eyewithness News
>
> Twenty-one cases of a rare and deadly brain cancer; all in the
>community around Sea-Tac airport. Families in the area believe its no
>coincidence. They want to know if toxic chemicals from the aircraft
>fuel overhead are to blame. the area.
>
> Airport Cancer
> by Micki Flowers
>
> Twenty-one cases of a rare and deadly brain cancer — all in the
> community around Sea-Tac airport. Families in the area believe its no
> coincidence. They want to know if toxic chemicals from the aircraft
> fuel overhead are to blame. the area.
>
> A Darnell Malcolm grew up in the area. She says her parents were
> exposed to toxic chemicals from aircraft jet fuel. Both of her
> parents died from an aggressive and rare form of cancer, a malignant
> brain tumor. "I believe that had my parents not lived in this house
> and been exposed to jet fuel," says Malcom, "they would not have been
> exposed to brain cancer and died at an early age." They weren't the
> first in this neighborhood. Just five blocks from the Malcolm's old
> house, Audrey Richter taught 1st grade. "I have personally known six
> people who have died of this brain tumor," says Richter. "Three of
> them worked at our school." Suspecting the deaths from brain tumors
> were more than coincidence, Audrey Richter teamed up with another
> woman who lives under the flight path, Rose Clark. Over three years
> Audrey and Rose collected data to compile a map, geographically
> pinpointing cancer cases. "The map shows very clearly that the closer
> you are to the flight path, the more likely you are to die of
> cancer." Their efforts sparked a state Health Department
> investigation. "We found elevated rates of glioblastoma in an area
> three miles around Sea-Tac Airport, " says state epidemiologist Juliet
> VanEenwyk. In the three year period the state examined, they expected
> 12 cases of glioblastoma a rare brain cancer. They found twenty-one.
> In fact, they found more cases of all the cancers they looked for.
> Officials say they would like to be able to answer the community's
> questions. But that may be difficult. "We don't know what causes
> brain tumors," admits VanEenwyk. We don't know the effect of
> combinations of chemicals. Not finding something doesn't mean that
> there's nothing there." The families who have raised health concerns
> about airport emissions are also part of organized opposition to
> SeaTac's plans to build a third runway.
>
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