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Air Force investigating potential brain cancer cluster at Cannon AFB

Air Force Times

By Rachel S. Cohen

October 31, 2023

The Air Force is investigating whether children who live at New Mexico’s Cannon Air Force Base are more likely to develop brain cancer than those at other installations.

Since 2010, three children have been diagnosed with rare, fast-growing tumors, known as diffuse midline gliomas, while living at Cannon or after being stationed there, the base’s 27th Special Operations Wing said in an Oct. 23 release.

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