- Hello Jeff - I was very upset about some of the cutbacks
for NY State such as deep cuts to the DEC. At a time when NY State is facing
the loss, extinction, of ALL of its bats, while we also face Mad Deer Disease
in Cervids, and many, many environmental issues, we don't need cuts to
the DEC.
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- BTW, Dr. Tom Termotto was 100% correct on your Monday
program about Louisiana and the high cancer rates, especially in 'cancer
alley' - which is a strip of land between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and
home to the petrochemical industry and has many many petrochemical and
industrial.
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- I found something on this dated May 2008. Louisiana
cancer outpaced the nation for quite some time. Add to the decades past
of high cancer rates, the current BP catastrophe and this year and over
the coming years cancers, autoimmune diseases, central nervous system illnesses
skin diseases will all present whopping increases.
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- Tell me, how does one get paid by BP 5 or 10 years down
the road when they come up with Lupus, MS or cancer? Answer. They
don't.
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- Patty
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- Check out this story...
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- Home to "Cancer Alley," a strip of land
between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that houses many industrial and petrochemical
plants, Louisiana is found to have cancer rates that outpace the national
average. For Louisiana residents, the most frequently diagnosed cancers
are lung at 16 percent, prostate, 16 percent, breast, 14 percent, colon
and rectum, 12 percent, and urinary bladder, 4 percent.
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- The five-year period between 2000 and 2004 brought 105,082
diagnoses of invasive primary in Louisiana residents, or an average of
21,016 cases per year. Specifically, Louisiana's incidence rates
for tobacco- related cancers such as lung, oral cavity, kidney, and pancreas
are also higher than U.S. rates, which are preventable.
- http://stayhealthyla.org/blog/?p=1527
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- Also
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- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20070801/ai_n19439435/
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- The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
New Orleans has mapped the geographic distribution of cancer for the first
time.
- "This volume - is the first to show cancer incidence
and mortality maps for major cancer sites by parish, providing the foundation
for future geo-spatial studies to reduce cancer burden and disparity in
the state," said Dr. Vivien Chen, professor of public health and director
of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Louisiana Tumor Registry.
- Study highlights include:
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- Related Results
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- Preaching care of the Earth with poetry
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- - The ndustrial Corridor, including Ascension, East Baton
Rouge, Iberville, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and West
Baton Rouge parishes, show white and African-American males with significantly
more cancer sites than their counterparts nationwide. The rate for African-American
women in the Industrial Corridor was similar to national levels and white
women showed significantly lower.
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- - The incidence rates for cancers of all sites combined
among white men and African-American men in Louisiana were also significantly
higher than nationally, but the rate for African- American women in Louisiana
was similar to national levels and white women was significantly lower.
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- - The five-year period between 2000 and 2004 brought
105,082 diagnoses of invasive primary in Louisiana residents, or an average
of 21,016 cases per year.
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my
new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
Go with God and in Good Health
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