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I am 30 y/o and I was just Diagnosed with Breast Cancer. i lived on a farm in Old Brookville, and then moved to Huntington at a young age. Huntington is also known as a cancer cluster area. I had an aunt who lived in Huntington most of her life who battled it all her life and died at 62y/o form it. None of the other cancers in my family were breast. None were found to be genetic either. You can now have a simple blood test to determine whether or not you carry the BRAC1 or BRAC2 gene. There is no doubt in my mind it is environmentally related. I have an interest in speaking to anyone who seeks to find the truth about these links or just wants to share their thoughts about being diagnosed and dealing with all the pain that comes along with your struggles. Please feel free to contact me
Im terribly sorry to hear about your illness.
My mother had Breast Cancer.
Please share any findings here.I suspect you are correct.
There were heat maps online a few years ago that mysteriously disappeared.
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I live in West Islip which has been labeled as a cancer cluster for years and years (the Dzus zipper factor on Union Blvd. dumping chemicals in the 1950s is the accused culprit) but yet I have also seen studies have proven that no such cluster exists so I am not sure exactly what to believe. While I do believe environmental factors play a role (cell phone towers for instance are a known cancer causer) I do also fee that genetics and lifestyle also play a HUGE role.
PLEASE, always get your checkups and bring up anything unusual with your doctor. Most forms of cancer now have very high survival rates if detected in the early stages. The current overall cancer survival rate is 67% according to the NIH in a report they released about a month ago ... it's my hope that we will see that number hit 90%+ in my lifetime (im 22 so it's certainly possible).
My older brother passed away from a brain tumor in 2004. He lived in Shirley (near the airport) for many years before he died.
I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but I have more questions than answers regarding the cancer rates on LI. My sympathies to anyone that has lost loved ones to cancer in the past.
I know a family with three sisters - one died in her 30's, one in her 50's, the third battled breast cancer her whole life. There are no other family members that have cancer because they did not the live/grow up in levittown NY. Nothing to do with genetics, these were all otherwise healthy women.
I don't know if it wa electromagnetic fields or some other contamination caused the cancer cluster there, but it was 100% the cause of the breast cancer in all three of them. I can bet the state knows no one should live there.
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My older brother passed away from a brain tumor in 2004. He lived in Shirley (near the airport) for many years before he died.
My daughter had a brain tumor when she was only eight years old. I just noticed that there were two contaminated sites right near where we were living at the time. The brain tumor truly destroyed her life.
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Yes, it's true about cancer clusters here
