The New York State Department of Health said a study found the number of people from a Long Island school district living with cancer to be “statistically significant,” but investigators stressed that the community should not be concerned
Over a 20-year period, the department found that the number of cancer instances among Northport-East Northport district residents was three percent higher than would be expected, according to the study. Pancreatic cancer, uterine cancer, prostate cancer and malignant melanoma of the skin were the most common occurrences, the health department stated.
Meanwhile, residents in the East Northport Middle School area did not have any significantly higher level of cancers found compared to what would be expected. The study concluded that the leukemia diagnoses among the graduates did not appear to be part of any larger cancer patterns, and that the unusually high numbers of cancer in 2016 might have been coincidental, as the members of the class did not all go to the same middle school and because the numbers from the years before and after are normal.
The study analyzed cancer occurrence from 1999 to 2018. That analysis did not include 12-year-old Sullivan Carey, who returned to East Northport Middle School a celebrity recently — marking his first time back in the school as he battles leukemia.
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