Published in the Asbury Park Press
By JEAN MIKLE
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
TOMS RIVER -- Monday's monthly meeting of the Citizens Action Committee on Childhood Cancer Cluster has been canceled, and the next meeting of the citizens group will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 11, Chairwoman Linda L. Gillick said yesterday.
Gillick said there will be no July and August meetings because state and federal health officials have nothing new to add about the ongoing study of elevated levels of some childhood cancers here.
The September meeting will feature a presentation by Paul Lioy, deputy director of Rutgers University's Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, on the results of a two-year-old study of possible connections between airborne pollutants and the elevated level of childhood cancer cases.
Scientists have been looking at exposures to air emissions from two sources, the former Ciba-Geigy Corp., Route 37, and the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey. Researchers also collected dust for analysis from dozens of Dover Township homes.
The attic dust study is expected to give scientists clues about emissions from industrial facilities, like Ciba, that were in operation in the past.
The five-year-old childhood cancer study is expected to be completed by the end of this year, when results of an epidemiological study are expected to be released. The study compares families of children with cancer to families whose children did not contract the disease.
"Should there be any developments over the next two months, the CACCCC will call an emergency meeting, and all state and federal officials have agreed to attend," Gillick said.
Published on July 14, 2001
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