I know there are many places people call "Cancer Alley," but the one in Pasadena/Deer Park, Texas, where all the chemical plants and refineries are, is called Cancer Alley by public health professionals. The records bear it out. I'm talking about mid-1980's.
certainly industry has an effect, and i've alwys heard new orleans and parts south referred to as cancer alley too.
one of the interesting things: in the northeast, both men and women [white] have higher cancer mortality rates, but in the south, among whites, the men have noticeably higher rates in some areas.
i also wondered if the lack of early data about cancer among blacks was because nobody cared enough about them back then to record what they died of.
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Yeah, me too (namely, industry). I couldn't help notice the dates. I wonder if current data look similar.
(I mean, everyone was still smoking back then for one thing.)
I know there are many places people call "Cancer Alley," but the one in Pasadena/Deer Park, Texas, where all the chemical plants and refineries are, is called Cancer Alley by public health professionals. The records bear it out. I'm talking about mid-1980's.
[ynfuz - yes-no-fuzzy]
certainly industry has an effect, and i've alwys heard new orleans and parts south referred to as cancer alley too.
one of the interesting things: in the northeast, both men and women [white] have higher cancer mortality rates, but in the south, among whites, the men have noticeably higher rates in some areas.
i also wondered if the lack of early data about cancer among blacks was because nobody cared enough about them back then to record what they died of.
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