Ms. Theresa A. Cassidy

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  www.painedu.com/roundtable.asp?member=3&RoundtableNumbe - [Cached Version]
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  Theresa Cassidy, MPH

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  Bladder cancer leads to probe - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/20/2002    Last Visited: 7/20/2002  

  "We're going to review cases, map information, look at outside health risks and record patterns of cancer rates in specific areas," said Theresa Cassidy, chief of the community assessment unit of the Bureau of Environmental Health Assessment."I don't know what we're going to find, it's hard to say if there's a problem there or not yet."
  
  Cassidy said the areas that will be studied are all of Southampton, Southeast Easthampton, East Holyoke and Northwest Westfield.The investigation is expected to be finished in 2003.
  
  Unsafe levels
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says that five parts TCE per billion parts water is a safe level in the supply.
  
  DEP officials, which first launched an investigation in 1994 after TCE was found in two Easthampton's public wells, noted that levels have been detected at much higher rates in Southampton.For instance, land near a private well on Freyer Road home was found to have 67 parts TCE per billion.

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  Boston Globe Online / Metro | Region / State finds no... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/11/2001    Last Visited: 9/11/2001  

  But the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has concluded that ''there does not appear to be an atypical pattern of cancer incidence in this area of Woburn , '' according to an Aug. 27 letter to the parties in the case from Theresa A. Cassidy , chief of the community assessment unit at the Bureau of Environmental Health.
  
  The report did little to quell the anger of the activists who have , in some cases , spent years building a case that Winning Farm created a public health risk.
  
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  Many were types not considered related to environmental factors , Cassidy said.
  
  But one environmental health specialist said he puts little faith in such studies. ''State health agencies have a tendency to try to make these problems go away , '' said David Ozonoff , chairman of the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University. ''It's easier to do that because it's very hard to see what's really going on.''.
  
  The state's report pointed out that one of every three Americans will develop cancer in his or her lifetime. ''Because there are so many types , people will think of it as one disease.But it's not.It's many diseases.It isn't necessarily uncommon to see many cases in one neighborhood , '' Cassidy said.
  
  This story ran on page B2 of the Boston Globe on 9/11/2001.© Copyright 2001 Globe Newspaper Company
  
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  Cancer study in 2nd phase in Ponds area - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/14/2002    Last Visited: 2/14/2002  

  Theresa Cassidy, chief of the Community Assessment Unit at the DPH, said this part of the investigation could take from three months to a year, depending upon what data surfaces.
  
  Cassidy said the DPH would research any health-related issues, if requested, but added that early data can determine the extent of the research.The project, the first of its kind in the Ponds area, already requires an in-depth investigation, she said.
  
  The DPH initiated the project a year ago by collecting data from town officials and the state Department of Environmental Protection, which discovered the contamination following an extensive study.
  
  In December 2000 the DEP said that General Electric Co. and Southampton Sanitary Engineering were responsible for TCE-contamination of water supplies in Southampton, Easthampton and Holyoke.
  
  According to the DEP report, TCE leaked into the groundwater from two properties in West Holyoke of former GE employees and from a site once operated on Pequot Road by Southampton Sanitary Engineering, a hazardous waste recycling firm that closed as of Jan. 1.

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  Daily News Tribune - Local News Coverage - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/22/2004    Last Visited: 8/22/2004  

  The draft will be reviewed internally by Suzanne Condon, Department of Public Health associate director of the Center for Environmental Health, and then passed to an external panel consisting of an epidemiologist, environmental epidemiologist, statistician and other experts for a second peer review, said Theresa Cassidy, a DPH senior environmental epidemiologist.

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  Inside Template - [Cached Version]
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  Project Manager of the studies, DPH's Theresa Cassidy said, "the study has become somewhat stalled because we have only gotten a 35% response rate from letters sent to households.We are only allowed to make three efforts to try to engage the person.The progress has also been slower than we hoped because there has to be medical review of all the known cases to verify the diagnosis, and that takes time."Cassidy and Project Manager, Nicole Arrigo state that, "there is no issue with funding or resources for this.

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  MassLive News - Private well water eyed for cancer link - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/23/2002    Last Visited: 7/23/2002  

  "Bladder cancer is significantly elevated among males in Southampton and Westfield," said Theresa A. Cassidy, chief of the community assessment unit of the Bureau of Environmental Health Assessment of the state Department of Public Health.
  
  Cassidy's unit is several months into a study to see if the higher incidence of male bladder cancer can be linked to environmental sources or to particular neighborhoods.The study should be completed sometime in 2003, Cassidy said.
  
  "Part of the big concern is that a number of folks in these areas have private water drinking wells," Cassidy said.
  
  Trichlorethylene contamination of groundwater in the Barnes Aquifer could be a factor, Cassidy said.
  
  The Barnes Aquifer provides water for Westfield, Southampton, Easthampton and Holyoke.
  
  As for the municipal water supplies, because of the groundwater contamination, Easthampton built a $2 million water treatment plant and Southampton voters in 1999 approved borrowing $998,000 to complete a 10.5-mile extension of the town's water system to serve households in the Pequot Pond area whose well water was contaminated.
  
  Westfield's wells have not been touched by the underground flume of contamination.
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  TCE is a suspected carcinogen and is believed to be associated with six different kinds of cancers, including bladder cancer, Cassidy said.
  
  Bladder cancer rates for Easthampton and Holyoke are below state average, Cassidy said.
  
  Bladder cancer is more frequently diagnosed in men than women, Cassidy said.
  
  The investigation was prompted by a request from the Southampton Board of Health in response to concerns voiced by residents, some of whom have used private wells for years.
  
  The primary geographical area involved is the so-called Ponds area, around Pequot Pond and this city's borders with Southampton and Holyoke.
  
  TCE is a solvent widely used as an industrial degreaser.

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  MetroWest Daily News - Local News Coverage - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/24/2004    Last Visited: 12/29/2004  

  At an Aug. 19 meeting of the Ashland/Nyanza Community Advisory Committee, Theresa Cassidy, a DPH senior environmental epidemiologist, predicted the Ashland Health Study would be ready for release before Christmas.
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  Cassidy, who is on maternity leave, could not be reached yesterday for comment.

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  MetroWest Daily News - Local News Coverage - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/20/2004    Last Visited: 8/21/2004  

  The draft will be reviewed internally by Suzanne Condon, Department of Public Health associate director of the Center for Environmental Health, and then passed to an external panel consisting of an epidemiologist, environmental epidemiologist, statistician and other experts for a second peer review, said Theresa Cassidy, a DPH senior environmental epidemiologist.
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  After more than six years, interviews with 1,387 people who grew up in Ashland from 1965 to 1985, and a fistful of funding fights, the Ashland Health Study is expected to be made public in December, Cassidy said yesterday.
  
  "I would say we're nearing completion of this study and we are looking forward to answering some of the questions," Cassidy said.
  
  While Cassidy declined comment on the report's specifics, she said the findings will be announced at a public meeting.
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  This time around, the DPH used Web site, class and reunion lists, a hotline, radio spots featuring former Red Sox infielder Lou Merloni, local cable, local media, mailings and by going door-to-door to track down students who graduated from Ashland High School from 1972 to 1992, Cassidy said.
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  Cassidy said she has spent much of the spring drafting the report.She expects to name an external review panel by the end of the month.
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  But because the DPH paid for 90 percent of the work, Cassidy said they are asking the ATSDR if it will accept the state-ordered peer review as the final examination of the study.

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  PainEDU.org { Clinician Roundtable } - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/30/2008    Last Visited: 8/2/2008  

  Theresa Cassidy, MPH
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  Theresa Cassidy, MPH is an epidemiologist working at Inflexxion Inc. in Newton, MA.
  
  Theresa Cassidy will be answering the question, how is post-marketing surveillance of prescription drugs done?

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