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Originally Posted by cme01
Hi, I recently attended a meeting with other MDS sufferers and every single one of us had grown up in the country or on farms. I thought that was a huge coincidence.
Chirley
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Hey Chirley!
There's a mention of exposure to benzene and possibly other problematic substances among farmers in a lecture on the epidemiology of MDS, etc. at a recent AAMDS conference at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.
Here's a
link. It's the first video at the top of the page.
GReg
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