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Cluster of breast cancer comes to Australian studios
Posted Jun 13th 2007 3:06PM by Brian White
Filed under: Breast Cancer, Daily news
The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) is dealing with a rather odd problem -- cases of breast cancer in every one of its studios in that country.
In one case, the ABC actually abandoned one of its sites after an independent panel found a breast cancer rate that was 11 times as high as among the normal population. In this case, 1
3 newswomen primarily working in the newsroom were diagnosed with breast cancer between 1994 and 2006.
The report that exposed the high rate of breast cancer stated that the cause has yet to be explained, stating "If there is a currently unknown or undetected aspect of work or the working environment at the ABC Toowong that could have contributed to the observed increase in risk of breast cancer, it might also be present in similar ABC studio complexes elsewhere in Australia."
Tags: breast cancer, BreastCancer
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