Higher than Normal rates of Cancer found in 5th Ward area (felons, homes)

[Redlionjr]

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/ho...er-struck-area

This is really really horrible.

[jerbear30]

This is where industrial capitalism meets racial injustice. It's so awful. Someday we will see more clearly and our priorities will change. Hopefully, we can steer ourselves a bit more in that direction by being vigilant here and now about this terrible catastrophe.

[bu2]

The homes were probably there before the chemicals. Before we really understood how bad some of this stuff was.

Now whether or not these chemicals contributed to these cancer cases, there is a strong association of certain types of cancer with poverty.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711979/

"...Men and women with less than a high school education had elevated lung cancer rate ratios of 3.01 and 2.02, respectively, relative to their college educated counterparts. Those with family annual incomes less than $12,500 had incidence rates that were more than 1.7 times the lung cancer incidence rate of those with incomes $50,000 or higher. Lower income was also associated with a statistically significantly increased risk of distant-stage breast cancer among women and distant-stage prostate cancer among men.

Socioeconomic patterns in incidence varied for specific cancers, while such patterns for stage were generally consistent across cancers, with late-stage diagnoses being associated with lower SES. These findings illustrate the potential for analyzing disparities in cancer outcomes according to a variety of individual-level socioeconomic, demographic, and health care characteristics, as well as by area measures available in the linked database...."

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by bu2

The homes were probably there before the chemicals. Before we really understood how bad some of this stuff was.

Now whether or not these chemicals contributed to these cancer cases, there is a strong association of certain types of cancer with poverty.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711979/

"...Men and women with less than a high school education had elevated lung cancer rate ratios of 3.01 and 2.02, respectively, relative to their college educated counterparts. Those with family annual incomes less than $12,500 had incidence rates that were more than 1.7 times the lung cancer incidence rate of those with incomes $50,000 or higher. Lower income was also associated with a statistically significantly increased risk of distant-stage breast cancer among women and distant-stage prostate cancer among men.

Socioeconomic patterns in incidence varied for specific cancers, while such patterns for stage were generally consistent across cancers, with late-stage diagnoses being associated with lower SES. These findings illustrate the potential for analyzing disparities in cancer outcomes according to a variety of individual-level socioeconomic, demographic, and health care characteristics, as well as by area measures available in the linked database...."

There are two Superfund sites in the area, on opposite sides of Cavalcade, East of Maury. The larger one to the South was used from 1910 until 1962. The other one operated from 1946 to 1961. Here's links to teh EPA Superfund Site web pages.

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cu...cfm?id=0602956

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cu...cfm?id=0602895

[jfre81]

This is why gentrification isn't going to make it very far into the Fifth. Run into the same deal as the East End around Harrisburg/69th. The part around Eastex/Lyons/Gregg etc. maybe, but not far east of that.

[jerbear30]

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...sk-1583566.php

The linked study is from 2007, noting the much higher rates of Leukemia in children living near the ship channel. It's such a moral atrocity. We can all remember all the efforts and resources devoted to those kids in the cave in Thailand. That's because we care about children and we don't want them to die. Yet here in our own city, we have children dying of a terrible disease who are dying because of the way we make money, and we just chalk it up to collateral damage.

[Spade]

That's truly horrible.

[AcresHomes44]

Is anyone surprised? Ghetto neighborhoods almost always rank among the worst for quality of life. There was a study a few years ago that said some ghetto neighborhoods have a high concentration of felons.

[kemahkami]

Everything causes cancer.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by ScrappyJoe

Everything causes cancer.

Some things just cause it a little faster. Some environments just promote it a little more. This is one of them.

Another one, I grew up there.