More Than A Third Of The Students In An Australian Primary School Have Cancer

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More Than A Third Of The Students In An Australian Primary School Have Cancer

BARWON HEADS, Australia — More than a third of the students from Kristie Ainsworth’s Barwon Heads Primary School located in the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria have been diagnosed with cancer or autoimmune diseases. Ainsworth was diagnosed with the blood cancer Hodgkin’s lymphoma when she was 17. She has told a Senate inquiry into a possible cancer cluster in Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula. “There are so […]

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