Description: Polluted groundwater at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod contaminates Falmouth drinking water and is thought related to elevated cancer rates in vicinity.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/07/1991
Description: Pondville Hospital exterior in Norfolk. Snow on ground. State public health facility specializing in cancer treatment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1979
Description: Theories about breast cancer link it to alcohol, smoking, or birth control pills. New study speculates about high fat diet as cause, and another explores vitamins as preventive.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/04/1991
Description: Ballot question 4 would shut down nuclear power plants. Mother blames her daughter's leukemia on proximity to Plymouth plant. Edison denies link to high cancer rate in area. Referendum ads.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/26/1988
Description: Pilgrim nuclear power station manager claims unequivocally that incidence of cancer is not attributable to radiation from plant. Plymouth man whose mother died of leukemia questions cause of her disease.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/10/1989
Description: SATELLITE TELECONFERENCE ON SKIN CANCER. melanoma
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/30/1985
Description: SNUFF USERS, SOME ALREADY WITH CANCER, TESTIFY AGAINST SNUFF AT HEARING . chewing tobacco
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/06/1985
Description: HEARING ON SAFETY OF SNUFF AND ITS LINK TO CANCER. chewing tobacco
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/05/1985
Description: B-roll of technicians working in a lab at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institue. Lab equipment used includes: microscopes, Petri dishes, Geiger counter, fume hood. Exteriors of the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1982
Description: At Baird & McGuire Superfund site, dioxin and heavy metals are still being cleaned up to prevent further contamination of drinking water in Holbrook. Residents are concerned about cancer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/07/1991