Town Sees Cluster Of Brain Tumor Cases, Part 2

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Author: kmbctv
Found: May 21, 2008

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More than a dozen brain tumors have been diagnosed in seven months ago in the town of Cameron, KMBC's Kelly Eckerman reported. It did not take long for word to spread in the town of 6,500. Steve Helms was diagnosed just weeks ago, and suddenly friends were telling him they had a brain tumor, too. "What is your greatest concern right now?" Eckerman asked Helms. "Dying. That's my greatest concern, and how many other people are walking around and have it and don't even know it," Helms said. Helms said he had headaches and could not sleep. A CAT scan revealed two brain tumors. One, which was a large as a half dollar, was removed immediately. The other tumor lies too close to the brain stem to be removed. Until they get some answers, Helms said he and his family no longer drink city water. "In this town, and there are a dozen in six months, something doesn't add up," Helms said. Symptoms have varied. Headaches were common. For others it was sinus or hearing problems. Austin, 8, had headaches, too. One morning he fell and started vomiting. At the hospital, Austin's mother was not prepared for what doctors were about to tell her. "She said she was sorry to have to tell me, but he had a mass that they didn't know what it was," Jessica Hammer said. "They weren't able to remove the tumor. They did what they call a limited surgery, which was just draining the tumor. I wonder all the time if there was something I could have done." Austin is now being treated at St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis. One of the first to become alarmed was pharmacist Steve Erickson. Erickson said he knows most of the families in town and immediately realized something was very wrong. "You take the first victim, you take the second victim and you look at each other and you say, 'Whoa! What do we have in common?'" said Erickson. "Then you add the third one and the fourth one. I'm sure if I was one of the diagnosed, I would not think it was coincidence. Thank God." Eckerman reported that residents don't wa...
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Tags: KMBC, Cameron, Missouri, brain, tumor, cases
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