A pilot study of childhood leukemia patients living near Colorado’s oil and gas drilling sites recently led to an American Cancer Society (ACS) grant award for CU Cancer Center member Lisa McKenzie PhD, MPH.
“What we found in that study was that children with ALL were four times more likely to be living in the highest density of oil and gas areas than children diagnosed with another kind of cancer,” McKenzie says.
The striking findings of the pilot study led McKenzie to apply to the ACS for funding to do a larger population-based case–control study.
Read the full post in the CU Cancer Center Newsroom.
Valerie Gleaton, LLC 
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