PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services says it’s close to finalizing a questionnaire it will use to get more information about children who are part of a cancer cluster in the Seacoast area.
The Portsmouth Herald reports that DHHS official Whitney Hammond said Wednesday in Portsmouth the state has been working on the questionnaires as it continues its investigation into the cluster.
The comments came during the first meeting of Gov. Maggie Hassan’s task force on Wednesday.
Hammond says the state has moved into the third step of its four-step investigation because of a significantly higher number of rare cancer cases.
Several Seacoast children have died from rhabdomyosarcoma, one of two rare types of childhood cancer that the state determined was part of a cancer cluster.
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