The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, based in Atlanta, plans to investigate a possible link between environmental factors and cancer in Ware County in southeast Georgia.
Georgia Health News reports the agency is responding to a petition from residents.
The area has a history of industrial contamination.
And there have been three recent cases of a rare form of soft tissue sarcoma in children who live there.
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