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Old 10-18-2013, 01:41 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist View Post
We're not talking about cancer in general here.

Most pollutants have estrogenic or other hormonal effects on the body, leading to reproductive cancers. I have not seen any documentaries, but I've heard there is a large increase in reproductive cancers there, which seems fairly reasonable to assume when so many polyaromatic hydrocarbons are released. I'm not sure how you could avoid it there, though I'm not totally familiar with the process

The alarming thing in Fort Chip is that there was a huge amount of bile duct cancer which is a very rare type of cancer.

No mention of the fact that perhaps a lot of people share the same genes given they are a remote self sustaining community.
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