Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eight families in Woburn, Mass., are suing a New York-based industrial company, claiming that following the company's pollution of two town wells, six Woburn children were afflicted with leukemia...
...order to win their suit, which is being tried in Boston Federal District Court by Judge Walter Jay Skinner, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a direct correlation between the polluted wells and the high leukemia rate, parties to the case said...
When the doctors analyzed their results, they "found that the children who had leukemia received twice as much [polluted] water as the children who didn't," Zelen said...
Although Zelen said that the study does not definitively prove a cause and-effect relationship between the poisoned wells and the increased rate of leukemia, he said that he believes it proves this relationship as directly as possible...
Robinson's research focusses primarily on themanufacture of blood elements by bone marrow, hesaid. He said he is interested in the bloodabnormalities connected with leukemia and theirpotential therapeutic applications...