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Yeah, when amateurs get into the cancer cluster business the results tend to not be good. The city I grew up in had such a problem. A cancer cluster was discovered. A local rag far more interested in government-bashing than the truth wouldn't let go even when the researchers looked into it and found it was a cluster of cancer *patients*, not a cluster of cancer *diagnoses*.

What was really going on is that it was the cheapest part of town that was still safe to live in. Cancer is expensive, cancer victims were moving there. Last I knew it had become a part of town I wouldn't enter even during daylight.



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