Word: leukemias
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WOBURN--Angry citizens of the town of Woburn last night received backing from a team of Harvard researchers for their suspicions that contaminated well water was responsible for the unusually high rate of childhood leukemia and birth defects in the town's population...
...period 1969-1983, the number of observed leukemia cases in the town of 36,000, located 12 miles north of Boston, was nearly two and a half times the national average...
...report showed that 21 percent of the water drunk by leukemia victims came from the contaminated wells, compared to 10 percent for a control group...
...addition to examining childhood leukemia, the team studied the instances of reproductive disorders, including miscarriage and stillbirth as well as other forms of cancer...
...blood you donate may go directly to its recipient in the form of a transfusion, or be broken down into its components to help victims of leukemia, hemophilia, or other diseases...