After nearly 100 people who attended the same New Jersey high school developed rare brain tumors, an alumnus and cancer survivor is demanding answers.
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"What I find alarming is there's truly only one environmental link to primary brain tumors and that's ionizing radiation. It's not contaminated water. It's not air. It's not something in soil," he told CBS. "It's not something done to us due to bad habits."Dr.
The town also said in its statement that a radiological and environmental remediation company has been contracted to begin collecting data at the school. The testing started on April 9.
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