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The health consultation (study) covers cancer rates for a 28-year span from 1973-2000.Cancer data used in the study were obtained from the Utah Cancer Registry.

Mortality data were obtained from the UDOH Office of Vital Records and Statistics for the same population group.

Cancer incidence and mortality rates in the two-mile radius study area for all asbestos-related cancers combined, cancer of the respiratory system and intrathoracic organs, and cancer of the lung and bronchus were elevated.Factors that could not be evaluated in this investigation include latency period, population migration, personal habits, diet, occupational exposures, and familial history of cancer.

These issues limit the conclusions that can be drawn.

Additional research is needed to address the impact of these risk factors on the elevated rates of respiratory cancers in the study area.

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She claims her terminal illness was caused by the asbestos fallout from a huge blaze at Central Ordnance Depot Donnington, as it was then known, on June 24, 1983.

Asbestos in the roof of the burning building was scattered over more than 15 sq miles of east Shropshire and more than £165 million of damage was caused.

The woman has told her lawyers, Reading-based Boyes Turner Solicitors, she remembers playing in the garden at her Leegomery home as the asbestos fell like “snow”.

She was just seven when the blaze ripped through the military base.

Today, Helen Childs, representing the woman, said a meeting would be held in Telford on April 16 and 17 for people to come forward who lived in the area in 1983.

She said many people may be unaware they have got symptoms of the fatal illness.

Mrs Childs said: “This is a young mum in her early 30s who has been exposed to asbestos in two potential ways.

“One way was her father used to work with asbestos when she was a young child and brought the dust home on his clothes.

“The other possibility is she was definitely exposed to asbestos as a result of the fire in Donnington in June 1983.

She said she can remember she was a small child and was out playing in the ashes and dust along with the local neighbourhood children.

“The damage for somebody so young, for the pain and sufferin...

When an environmental agent is the cause, he said, trends can be spotted.

There was no upward or downward trend on respiratory cancer rates over the 28-year time period studied, from 1973-2000.

"It was elevated, but consistent.

We don't know what was happening, but because The report, available online at www.health.utah .gov/enviroepi, said that the former VI site, now a Utah Power and Light substation, commercial parking lot and small businesses, poses no public health risk now.

Most of the site had been cleaned up when the researchers were writing their report and the last remaining contaminated soil beneath asphalt was to be remediated by the end of 2006.

The Environmental Protection Agency finished cleanup of the IP site in December 2004.

They estimate that 14,000 children 15 and younger lived within two miles of the area while the facilities were operating, and put the total population at about 70,400.

How many, if any, were actually exposed is unknown.

The state's study, Ball noted, had limitations.

Health officials have no exposure data to know if asbestos was ever released as the vermiculite was processed.

They don't know who worked at the plant ...