High incidences of Ewing Sarcoma cancer in children & young adults in Canonsburg PA and Ladera Ranch CA with oil & gas wells at shale layer

The states of California and Pennsylvania are littered with active and abandoned oil & gas wells, there is a high incidences of Ewing Sarcoma cancer in children and young adults in Canonsburg PA fracking and Ladera Ranch CA with oil & gas wells nearby. Canonsburg PA mimics Ladera Ranch CA with 27 cases of Ewing sarcoma in a 10 year period prior to 2019, currently there are approx 9 cases of Ewing sarcoma in Ladera Ranch CA up through 2026. When methane leaks from oil and gas sites, it is released with other harmful chemicals. These companion pollutants include known cancer-causing agents like benzene, formaldehyde, and acetaldehyde.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH; In the last decade, there have been 18 cases of Ewing sarcoma – a bone cancer most often found in children and young adults – in Washington and Westmoreland counties PA. To put that in perspective, there are roughly 200 Ewing sarcoma cases across the US each year, meaning the rate in Washington and Westmoreland counties PA has been about five times that of the rest of the US.

Canonsburg PA has widespread fracking, oil & gas wells seeking shale gas (methane CH4), deep down. Shale gas is a form of natural gas (mostly methane), found underground in shale rock. It is classified as ‘unconventional’ because it is found in shale, a less permeable rock formation than sandstone, siltstone or limestone, same goes for Ladera Ranch CA. A study published in 2016 by US Environmental Protection Agency in 2016 found that fracking can potentially lead to the contamination of drinking water. The vertical part of the well usually goes down 5,000 to 9,000 feet to reach the shale formation, just like in Ladera Ranch CA

The one common denominator in Ladera Ranch CA and Canonsburg PA is abandoned oil & gas wells nearby that went down to the "Shale Layer" where the gas is. In Ladera Ranch CA they have two abandoned deep drilled oil & gas wells, one is 8,365 feet deep drilled through the 'Shale Layer' and one is 4,350 ft deep drilled down to the "Shale Layer", gas.

Multiple young people and students in the Canon-McMillan School District (including areas like Canonsburg, Cecil, and North Strabane) were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma—a rare bone and soft tissue cancer—over the span of a decade.

Pennsylvania is widely known for 'fracking' deep drilled wells down to the 'Shale Layer'. Fracking drills down vertically through upper rock layers and freshwater aquifers before turning sideways to run horizontally inside the target shale layer itself. Oil and gas shale layers typically lie between 3,000 and 15,000 feet below the surface.

CANONSBURG PA (KDKA) Nov 2019-- At 16, Luke Blanock was a student-athlete in the Canon-McMillan School District PA who loved to play both baseball and basketball, until one night he woke up writhing in pain. "In the next two days, we had the diagnosis from Children's Hospital that it was a rare cancer called Ewing sarcoma," said Janice Blanock, his mother. Within three years Luke would succumb to this very aggressive form of bone cancer, and he was not alone. In the past 10 years, six Canon-Mac students have contracted Ewing sarcoma and three, including Luke, have died.

"The fact that there is no known environmental factor associated with the development of Ewing Sarcoma does not mean there is no environmental factor in the development of Ewing Sarcoma," Ketyer said. "It just hasn't been studied. The cancer is very rare." In a series of reports, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette identified 27 cases of Ewing sarcoma over the same period in Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene counties, as well as other childhood cancers in the Canon-Mac School District Pennsylvania. 

With fewer than 250 cases of Ewing sarcoma recorded annually in the United States, parents and family members believe they are living in a cancer cluster and the shale gas industry is to blame. However, environmental advocates say the spike in these cancers matches the decade-long rise of fracking and shale gas drilling. Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, sits in Washington County, a major hub for Marcellus Shale natural gas exploration and production.

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