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Mystery Cancer Cluster Hits Illinois Community

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posted on Dec, 18 2008 @ 08:36 AM
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"I am John Smith," said another patient. "I am on my second brain tumor."

An amatuer video shows residents in McCullom Lake Village. It is a community of a thousand people - but every person in the video either has a brain tumor, lives with a relative with one or lost someone to brain cancer.

There, in a community of about 1,000 people, 14 residents have developed brain cancer. Nationally the rate is roughly seven out of 100,000.


A Rohm Haas industrial plant is right there, and had been dumping chemicals into an 8 acre pit on their property. Those chemicals seeped into the ground water. There was no testing done during the time they dump chemicals into the pit, they have had the plant there since 1963 and admitted they dumped chemicals until 1979.

Rohm Haas has 140 plants in 27 countries -

Besides those people in that small community getting brain cancer - scientist that worked at their facilities have also been getting brain cancer.


At least five of the 12 researchers worked on one hallway in this one building - building Number 4.

Hsu's supervisor, Barry Lange, also died of brain cancer. His widow, Linda Lange, and several other widows are suing Rohm and Haas.

"I think there could be a cancer cluster there, you know Charles Hsu worked for my husband," Linda Lange said. "I am not a scientist but the numbers alone make me questions it."

Corporate whistleblower Thomas Haag said: "I was lied to, I was given the run-around, I was stalled and I was brushed off. I don't brush off easily."

Haag is a trained chemist and former executive at Rohm and Haas. In 1996, he wrote the company's chief of medicine about a possible brain cancer problem at the company. But it wasn't until six years later when two more scientists died and one more was diagnosed with brain cancer that the company decided to conduct its own study.

"I think the company is wrong from end to end," Haag said. "I think they have committed fraud in not alerting their own employees."

Pitts said: "All of these research scientists on the one hallway in a small space developed brain cancer. Coincidence?"


A Rohm Haas internal investigation came up with the facts of:


Dr. Lewis said Rohm and Haas conducted its own internal investigation in 2002 and 2007, but found no link between the cancer cases and the company.

He sums up the cancer cases in McCullom Lake Village and in Building #4 as likely coincidences, but the company has commissioned an independent study.


Amazing enough, the federal government is seemingly going to stand by the people for the first time - (possibly) against a major corporation.


But the federal government told Rohm and Haas their study was seriously flawed. NIOSH, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, a federal agency, is responsible for preventing work-related illnesses. They called for an independent study.


The government says there needs to be an independent study, but will that actually go against this huge corporation? Or will the study find it was just a coincidence after all?

This is a perfect case for Erin Brockovich.



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