Is a biological weapons program causing cancer clusters around Fort Detrick?

White has also spent the past few weeks collecting information from current and former Frederick residents who have cancer or know people who do. He plans to turn the information on more than 250 cancer patients over to state health officials so they can determine whether there appears to be a cancer cluster near Area B. Without revealing too much of what he found, White did say that he found a higher-than-normal rate of brain cancer and leukemia in the survey results.

Barbara Brookmyer, the county health officer, spoke at the event and said the foundation's information on people diagnosed with cancer after they moved away from Frederick would be helpful, since state cancer registries do not track the patients' former addresses. She said she had been working closely with state health officials and that they would be analyzing the cancer cases within one mile of Area B where the patient had a type of cancer typically caused by TCE and PCE, the two contaminants found in Area B and nearby wells in the 1990s.