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KATHLEEN MANWARING PHOTO CONTINUING THE FIGHT-Dr. James Chingos addresses the crowd at Monday 's "Conversation with the Cape Cod Community, a Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study Update." Chingos, a part-time Cape resident, flew in from Florida for the event. Panel offers update on research results By Kathleen Manwaring kmanwaring@barnstablepatriot. com There isno identifiable single cause of elevated breast cancer levels on Cape Cod, but the cause of fighting the disease with information and ac- tivism continues. "Breast cancer causa- tion is complex," said Beverly BacceUi, a Silent Spring Institute board member and Massachu- setts Breast Cancer Co- alition activist. "We were hoping there was going to be a smoking gun and that Silent Spring would provide that for us." Baccelli spoke at "A Conversation with the Cape Cod Community" held Monday at the Barnstable SeniorCenter in Hyannis. During the 1990s it was discovered that women living on Cape Cod had significantly higher rates of breast cancer than women living elsewhere in Massachusetts. Breast cancer activists suspected an environ- mental link and sought help from the Silent Spring Institute, which began an intensive study. Its initialphase,the Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environmental Study, has been completed. The results were shared with a sizeable audience Mon- day. While no specific cause wasfound for the elevated incidents ofbreast cancer onthe Cape,the study un- covered areas of concern. Foremost among these, Silent Spring Executive Director JuliaBrody said, was the high amount of dangerous chemicals in the homes ofmost women takingpart in the study. "We,the public, are the test rats for the chemical industry," said Baccelli. "Once weget sickenough, perhaps the government will intervene. Perhaps not." During the study, 120 homes were tested for air,quality and chemicals present in dust. In those studies 67out of 89known endocrine-disru pting chemicals were found , 20 on average per home. Graphs showed that a number of the homes were well above EPA guidelines for acceptable levels of toxins. "Health risk informa- tion islacking,"said Bro- dy. "There are persistent chemicals used legally in the past that have cre- ated health risks that are hard to identify without extensive testing." One startling chemical finding was that of DDT, aonce-commonpesticide banned for decades. "To 'make alinkto breast can- cer, we need to look into the past," Brody said. Audience members were encouraged to use environmentally safe cleaningproducts andwa- ter filters in their homes. Women were also asked to use cosmetics free of harmful chemicals. Following the discus- sion,TownManager John Klimmmoderated abrief question-and-answerses- sion. Panelist Dr. James C. Chingos of the Shands UniversityHealth Science Center in Florida praised the event. "While there was a great deal of impe- tus because of the obvi- ous risks on Cape Cod, this willapply to aUtypes of cancer," he said. "We know that what we do on Cape Cod will be informative for womenev- erywhere," Brody said. Pat Ryan-Blanchard , a nurse practitioner at the Breast Care Center at Cape Cod Hospital, urged those present to take part in the continu- ing fight against breast cancer. "There is not a day that goes by that I'm not telling a woman that we've found something suspicious in her mam- mogram," she said. "Any type of cancer isdramatic when you're hit with it." No 'smoking gun' ID'd by breast cancer study EDWARD F MARONEY PHOTO WORKING TOGETHER - Paul Niedzwiecki , Barnstable 's assistant town manager, sits with Cape Cod Commission Executive Director Margo Fenn as he discusses the town's growt h incentive zone with members of the county Assembly of Delegates Wednesday. GIZ is great with Assembly panel The full Assembly of Del- egates will vote on the Town of Barnstable's proposed Growth Incentive Zone for downtown Hyannis on June 7. On Wednesday, an Assembly subcommittee recommended approvalofthe effort designed to concentrate and manage growth in an area with infrastructure to support it. The plan frees the town to approve developments to certain thresholds without gaining the Commission's ap- proval. Assistant Town Manager Paul Niedzwiecki made clear that the GIZ was a collaboration between the town and commis- sion staff over the last two years. Responding to a question from delegate John Hodgkinson of Orleans about public support for the zone, he recalled that a previous version had failed to winthat support. "We got blown up," he said. The second attempt included broader public participation , to the point where Niezwiecki said, "I think Hyannis is ready for this." Commission Executive Di- rector Margo Fenn called the agreement "the best marriage of planningand regulation we've been able to come up with thus far,"and said officials and other citizensinBuzzards Bay wantto talk to Barnstable about how it accomplished its task. "Oh, sure," Barnstable del- egate Tom Lynch said with a smile, "(after) we paid for it!" Rep named to rights board RosarioQuiroz of Hyanniswas appointed by the Barnstable Town Council to serve as the town's representative to the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission/ Dig they must KeySpanEnergy DeliveryNew England willbe digging up Cape roadsfrom Sandwichto Harwich, including some in Barnstable , over the next half-decade to lay 13 miles of high-pressure distri- bution pipeline. The project , which is to start in Yarmouth, will have a public hearing before the Cape Cod Commission May 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Yarmouth Town Hall on Route 28. County budget clears Assembly of Delegates Human services advocates got a little more than half a loaf as the Assembly of Delegates voted for aFiscal Year2007 bud- get of $26,683,695. The amount matched that proposed by the county commissioners, but the Assembly went its own way to fund effort s such as an outreach worker to the homeless on Main Street in Hyannis that had been cut by the commissioners, The biggest winner, perhaps , was the fledgling Barnstable County Human Rights Com- mission, which won $38,500 that it will use to bring a part-time coordinator on board to handle inquiriesfrom people who believe their rights have been violated. The commissioners had zeroed out the rights commission, say- ing it had sufficient seed money to complete its pilot program year, but an outpouring of com- munity support seemed to help convince delegates that funding was needed. 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