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Content: A team of researchers identified 593 such hazardous
waste sites from the Environmental Protection Agency's National
Priority List for cleanup under the Superfund. They found that
hazardous waste site counties had significantly higher death rates
for six types of cancers for white men, and another six types
of cancers for white women (including breast cancer), than non-hazardous
waste site counties. ( 10)
The same correlation exists between breast cancer rates and the
nuclear industry. In 1990, the National Cancer Institute conducted
a study of cancer mortality rates near nuclear facilities. Using
data from that study, Drs. Ernest Sternglass, Jay Gould and Joseph
Mangano found that 18 percent of the U.S. female population lives
in or adjacent to counties that have nuclear reactors. This 18
percent of the population accounts for 55 percent of all breast
cancer deaths. Nationally, breast cancer declined 4 percent over
the period of the NCI's study, but for these