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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano

Southern California suburb alarmed as ‘exceptionally rare’ cancer sickens multiple children

Aerial view of homes in a suburb
Ladera Ranch in southern California on 17 May 2016. Photograph: Jeff Gritchen/Orange County Register/Getty Images

Concerns are growing in southern California over a cluster of “exceptionally rare” cancer cases that has sickened multiple children in a suburban community.

Families living in the Orange county neighborhood of Ladera Ranch, home to about 26,000 people, have reported that six children in the community were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, Katrina Foley, the vice-chair of the county board of supervisors, said in a statement.

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