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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Department of Health will review 440 cancer cases, looking for a link between a former uranium processing mill in Monticello and the incidence of the illness in residents.
The department made the announcement yesterday.
The list of cases was compiled by the Victims of Mill Tailings Exposure committee. It includes former Monticello residents who moved out of state, were treated out of state, were diagnosed prior to 1973 or whose names were inadvertently excluded from the Utah Cancer Registry.
Monticello residents have long tried to prove a link between cancer cases and the uranium mill, which operated on the southeast side of town between 1943 and 1960.
V-M-T-E committee member Barbara Pipkin says she'd almost given up hope that the state would study a cancer link.
Department officials say they hope to release the results of their study in December.
Information from: The Deseret News
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