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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Md. To Keep Monitoring Cancers Near Fort Detrick

FREDERICK, Md. - Maryland's public health agency says a nearly 18-month cancer investigation has produced enough statistically significant results to warrant continued monitoring in neighborhoods around Fort Detrick in Frederick.

A Department of Health and Mental Hygiene official said at a public meeting Monday that the incidence of lymphomas within a mile of the Army installation from 1992 to 2008 was 25 percent higher than in the state as a whole.

But Dr. Clifford Mitchell says there was no statistically significant difference between the Fort Detrick area and the rest of Frederick County.

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