Whats Behind The Mystery Cancer Cluster?
Forty-six year old Sandy Wierschke, a once energetic, healthy woman with a career, husband and a child, is dying from brain cancer. “I don’t know what the future holds for me anymore,” she said. “I am just living three months to three months and hoping that I can make it another three months.” That’s how her neighbor Bryan Freund is living, too. He also has brain cancer. Neighbors on either side of his home have also developed brain cancer, CBS News national correspondent Byron Pitts reports. “And at that point between us and the Branhams and the Weisenbergers, we just knew that something was far out of the ordinary,” Freund said. “You live MRI to MRI.” And there are more cases. More than a dozen cases. “I am John Smith,” said another patient. “I am on my second brain tumor.” An amatuer video shows residents in McCullom Lake Village. It is a community of a thousand people – but every person in the video either has a brain tumor, lives with a relative with one or lost someone to brain c
Related Questions
- Why didn’t the Department of Health (DOH) surveillance systems pick up the cancer cluster, why did it take a private citizen to report the cluster?
- If the population total of the Acreage was 45,000 would the cancer cluster designation still be attached to the community?
- What is the GBACRs role in cancer cluster investigations?
