An area of Mooresville, North Carolina, has seen a higher-than-expected rate of thyroid cancer. Susan Wind, whose daughter was diagnosed in 2017, believes there's a reason.
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Despite the numbers showing a higher rate of thyroid cancer in Iredell County, health officials in North Carolina have not designated it as a cancer cluster, saying there still needs to be more research into the people getting cancer, when they were diagnosed and where they have lived over time.The difficulty about clusters is that"they can appear or disappear depending on the parameters used," said Kelly Haight Connor, a Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman.
After a first meeting in December of the state's Cancer Research Advisory Panel, members will focus on the release of a report in April that would help define what a cancer cluster is and figure out how to best appropriate money to do further studies in places such as Mooresville that will take into account several factors, not just possible environmental sources.
Miles Atkins, Mooresville's mayor, said some residents don't want to talk about the possibility of a cancer cluster because they are not personally affected or are anxious about what it could do to their property values. In response to why the state had not told the community about the high rate of thyroid cancers earlier, state health officials said they can't proactively find trends from state cancer registries, instead counting on the public's help.
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