[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, FORMER SITES, RADIATION: Coldwater Creek, MO cancer study

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Study links childhood residential proximity to polluted St. Louis creek with increased risk of cancer
The study's findings examined baby teeth to investigate proximity to the creek and cancer risk.

By Ashley Curtin
Nation of Change
July 25, 2025

According to a new study, children who grew up in the 1940s through the 1960s and lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste were likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes. The study’s findings examined baby teeth to investigate proximity to the creek and cancer risk.

Speculation held by neighbors of Coldwater Creek where children played for generations was confirmed in the study’s report titled Cancer Incidence and Childhood Residence Near the Coldwater Creek Radioactive Waste site, which was published in JAMA Network Open.

“We actually saw something quite dramatic, not only elevated risk of cancer, but one that increased steadily in a sort of dose-response manner the closer the childhood residents got to Coldwater Creek,” Marc Weisskopf, the study’s senior author and an epidemiology professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/07/25/study-links-childhood-residential-proximity-to-polluted-st-louis-creek-with-increased-risk-of-cancer/

For the full study, see
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12268482/

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Lenny Siegel
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