Cancer clusters all coincidence?

In Australia in recent years there have been quite a number of ‘cancer clusters’ in and around various buildings. There has been the ABC radio building in Brisbane, a school in Brisbane, Adelaide Hospital, and the latest report in the news is a North Queensland Fire house.

Firefighter's residence to be removed amid cancer scare

Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts says although the cluster was proven, no link was found to the station or the house.
But he has told the estimates hearings that the 1959 house, which has not been used for seven years, will be taken away.

In every case the buildings and their surrounds have been ‘investigated’ and all are given the so called all clear as no possible link had been found, yet in each case the buildings in question are abandoned and in some cased demolished, not because of any findings, but for ‘peace of mind’

This is becoming a little too common to not find a source, declaring it safe yet removing the people any way?!?!? Who is doing these investigations on these government owned buildings?

Maybe because we don't deal with our waste properly, pesticides, nuclear, various oil derived products and so on. They'll occur where we balls it up.

reply to post by redled


Very true, but my concern it the lack of real information. These sites are deamed as ‘safe’ and no cancer causing source is said to have been found yet they proceed with the removal of people and sometimes the building itself.
To me it screams of a cover up to avoid huge compensation claims? “We have found no link so you get no compo…Sorry ‘bout that.”

The other big coincidence it that they are all government owned buildings. Who else can sweep something like this under the carpet? Look at the Hardies asbestosis cases. If it were government owned would they have made the news at all let alone allowed compensation proceedings.

[edit on 22/7/2008 by VIKINGANT]

Sorry, I meant to do this earlier, but time got away...

Here are some stories of the other clusters to consider

Cancer cluster in Adelaide hospital

LEANOR HALL: To Adelaide now where a breast cancer study has found that women who work in one of the city's major hospitals are contracting the cancer at twice the normal rate.

The cancer cluster is limited to women who work in just one part of the Women's and Children's Hospital.

However the Health Department says there's nothing to suggest at this stage that it is anything more than a random statistical event.

Radiation scare for ABC after cancer cluster

RADIATION levels have forced the ABC to abandon its planned Brisbane home, just 18 months after it evacuated another site due to a cancer cluster.

"A final survey was conducted by Queensland Health and it was determined that the site was successfully remediated such that radiation levels were consistent with natural background radiation for the area," the spokesman said.

Possible cancer cluster at UNSW probed

The University of NSW (UNSW) is to launch an external investigation into reports of a high incidence of cancer among staff working in one of its faculty buildings.

Breast cancer 'cluster' probed

A suspected cluster of breast cancer is under investigation at a major Sydney hospital where five female staff members have been diagnosed with the disease in six years.

An expert panel convened in May to examine the cases at Concord Hospital, in Sydney's west, say there is an unusually high number of cases among a small group of women working in one part of the hospital.

Stephen Leeder, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, said the chance of an official cluster was a “very remote possibility”.

“In most cases it occurs simply by chance,” Prof Leeder said.

Probe into cancer cluster at Qld school

The Queensland government has ordered an investigation of a cancer cluster at a state high school built on an old rubbish dump, at the request of worried teachers.