Meeting to focus on Bethpage cancer study
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp, 2011 | The Northrop Grumman Corp. plant in Bethpage.
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State Department of Health officials will host a meeting Feb. 13 to discuss the department's assessment of cancer rates and environmental exposures in a Bethpage neighborhood bordering Navy and Northrop Grumman aviation facilities.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, a county legislator at the time, requested the study in March 2009 after the Navy reported it had found possible cancer-causing...