Published in the Asbury Park Press
By JEAN MIKLE
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
TOMS RIVER -- State officials will present a timetable for the completion of the five-year-old study of elevated levels of some childhood cancers in Dover Township at Monday's meeting of the Citizens Action Committee on Childhood Cancer Cluster.
The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the second-floor meeting room of the Dover Township Municipal Building, 33 Washington St.
State officials have previously said that an epidemiological study of families of children with cancer, which compares them with families whose children did not contract the disease, is expected to be completed by December.
Completion of the study, which was supposed to be finished by June, has been delayed because researchers have taken longer than anticipated to finish a lengthy reconstruction of Dover's water system.
The water model will attempt to help researchers determine if families whose children contracted cancer ingested more contaminated drinking water than families whose children did not contract the disease.
Linda L. Gillick, who chairs the citizens committee, said state and federal officials will give a detailed timeline Monday that will include dates when different components of the study, and the final epidemiological report, are expected to be finished.
Published on January 27, 2001
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