Sick and Tired ; Hundreds Pack Meeting to Demand Action On Toxic Plume

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POMPTON LAKES -- One by one, residents of a pollution-threatened neighborhood told state health officials about the cancers they were being treated for, or a relative was suffering from, or the tumor that killed their neighbor.

And many of the more than 500 people packing the high school auditorium Tuesday night vented frustrations a week after the state Health Department released a finding that kidney cancer rates in women and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma rates in men are significantly elevated in the neighborhood, where toxic chemical vapors are rising through the soil.

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Sick and Tired ; Hundreds Pack Meeting to Demand Action On Toxic Plume

"I am a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patient," said resident Elisa Sudol. "I have two boys. ... I hope nobody has to go through the trauma, the suffering, the hospitalization and the chemo I've had to go through. If we can ...

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