Flower Mound cancer study may expand
When state health officials take a new look at cancer cases in Flower Mound in the coming months, their study will be based on 13 years of data up to 2011 from the Texas Cancer Registry. It also may include analyses of smaller areas within the community than previously studied.
“The number crunching is already in the works,” said Carrie Williams, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services.
The agency recently announced that it would be conducting an updated cancer analysis in Flower Mound. The new investigation comes in response to a study by a University of Texas lecturer who challenged the agency’s conclusion that there was no cancer cluster in the community. (Read more….)
