Description: BAILUS WALKER WILL STUDY CANCER RATE AROUND PILGRIM STATION. Rep. Richard Voke.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1986
Description: Early detection of colo-rectal cancer (such as Tip O'Neill's) would increase probability of cure dramatically. Description of symptoms & recommended exams.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/18/1987
Description: Aflatoxin fungus which thrives in drought conditions is known to cause liver cancer. Corn fields, corn meal. MIT scientist in lab.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1989
Description: Press conference on carcinogenic risk of pesticide EDB in processed grain and flour products. Charts showing risk levels in parts per billion.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/08/1984
Description: Cancer registry tracks predominance of certain cancers by gender and helps correlate incidence with environmental conditions. Common cancers still elude treatment. Centrifuge. Deborah Prothrow-Stith.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1988
Description: Department of Public Health STUDY OF HIGH CANCER RATE AROUND PILGRIM NUCLEAR PLANT
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1987
Description: Department of Public Health study of elevated cancer rates around Pilgrim nuclear plant is still in progress. Boston Edison claims bias against them. Plymouth residents claim undue delay of findings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1989
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: Ronald Reagan visits Dana-Farber Cancer Institute on behalf of Jimmy Fund. He is questioned about his many responses of “I don't recall” in videotaped testimony for Iran contra hearings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1990
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