Post by Floppy Johnson on Oct 6, 2020 11:29:49 GMT -8
My mom died of glioblastoma. Over the years, there have been four women who lived on the square block that I grew up on who have died from glioblastoma. It is very rare and more common in men. Yet 4 women on one square block got it. My family has talked about, how we should bring that to someone's attention. Maybe it's an incredible fluke. But, maybe there's something in the environment there? Then we thought "who would we tell about it?" and I'm sure that it's already in a cancer cluster data base.
I was reading an article about Erin Brockavich last night, and read this:
The U.S. also lacks a national disease database where people can report their issues and connect the dots between illness clusters and environmental hazards. In 2013, Brockovich joined Trevor Schaefer, a young man from Idaho who had been diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 13, to testify on Capitol Hill about the importance of documenting and tracking cancer clusters. Three years later, President Obama signed “Trevor’s Law” as part of the newly strengthened Toxic Substances Control Act, but the current administration has failed to implement it. Brockovich hopes her crowdsourced digitized map will act as a de facto disease database. “She’s a pioneer in environmental investigations and with uncovering pollution sources,” Schaefer, now 30, says. “She’s been so successful in exposing it.”
I was reading an article about Erin Brockavich last night, and read this:
The U.S. also lacks a national disease database where people can report their issues and connect the dots between illness clusters and environmental hazards. In 2013, Brockovich joined Trevor Schaefer, a young man from Idaho who had been diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 13, to testify on Capitol Hill about the importance of documenting and tracking cancer clusters. Three years later, President Obama signed “Trevor’s Law” as part of the newly strengthened Toxic Substances Control Act, but the current administration has failed to implement it. Brockovich hopes her crowdsourced digitized map will act as a de facto disease database. “She’s a pioneer in environmental investigations and with uncovering pollution sources,” Schaefer, now 30, says. “She’s been so successful in exposing it.”
