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ABC Brisbane to move due to breast cancer riskThe Brisbane studios of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are to be vacated within weeks after an investigation into incidences of breast cancer among ABC staff found that there is almost certainly an increase in the risk of breast cancer at the Toowong site. The staff will move to a facility at Mt Coottha early in the New Year. Since the middle of the year, an independent panel, led by Professor Bruce Armstrong from the Sydney Cancer Centre at the University of Sydney, has been investigating an apparent cluster of cases of breast cancer at the ABC studios, where thirteen employees or former employees have been diagnosed with the disease. The content of the report was enough to convince Managing Director Mark Scott that Brisbane ABC staff needed to begin an immediate relocation. “The only that we could do in the light of this report was to take decisive action, and that’s why I met with the staff today with Professor Armstrong and we told staff that we would be starting an immediate relocation from this site,” said Mr Scott. However, despite extensive testing at the Toowong site - including testing of equipment, ionising radiation levels, chemical risk factors, radio frequency energy and extremely low energy frequencies - the investigating panel was unable to explain the apparent cluster of breast cancer cases. “Ultimately out of all of that, we’ve come out with a complete negative,” said Professor Armstrong. “We do not see anything in that that could explain an increase in risk of breast cancer here.”
Source: Media Network, ABC Brisbane
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