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Higher Levels of Cancer Found Downwind from the Industrial Heartland of Alberta
In a rural area downwind from Canada's largest oil, gas and tar sands processing zone -- a region known as the Industrial Heartland of Aberta, levels of contaminants are higher than in some of the world's most polluted cities, researchers have found. The findings, led by scientists from the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan, also indicate elevated rates of cancers in men linked to the detected chemicals.
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