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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...
Citing a 1982 study of Woburn residents' medical histories conducted by two SPH doctors, the families claim that through the negligence of the W. R. Grace Company, the water became contaminated with a known carcinogen, causing the residents to suffer "direct adverse effects and an increased risk of illness and disease...
Zelen, Lagakos and 250 volunteers interviewed 5000 Woburn families about their medical histories and living habits between 1977 and 1982, according to Zelen. The researchers volunteered their services when they learned of the Woburn residents' fears...
...Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering discovered that two of Woburn's eight wells had been contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), which is known to cause cancer and neurological disorders in laboratory animals...
...wells were closed immediately, after the state discoved the TCE levels. However, the plaintiffs--headed by a mother of three, Anne Anderson--claim that the damage had already been done. Six children in one six-block area of Woburn had been diagnosed with childhood leukemia in the five years before 1979, said Dr. John Truman of Massachusetts General Hospital, who treated all six Woburn children for the disease...