Thursday, May 22, 2014

DC Department of Health's report on pancreatic cancer in the Stronghold


From: 5E06@anc.dc.gov
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:23:47 -0400
Subject: FW: Data Request - Pancreas

Scott,
Please share.
Best,
Teri Janine Quinn
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, 5E06
202-495-1177
@TJQANC5E06
From: Mitchell, Katherine (Council) [kmitchell@DCCOUNCIL.US]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:53 AM
To: Quinn, Teri Janine (ANC 5E06)
Subject: FW: Data Request - Pancreas
Commissioner Quinn,

Attached is the Department of Health’s report that I referenced at the BCA meeting.

Best,

Kate Mitchell, Esq.
Legislative Counsel
Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, Ward 5
Chair Pro Tempore
Chair, Committee on Government Operations
Council of the District of Columbia
1350 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Ste. 506
Washington, DC 20004
202.724.8155 (direct)
kmitchell@dccouncil.us

Please visit www.kenyanmcduffie.com for the latest updates.



From: Dickerson, Patrice (DOH) [mailto:patrice.dickerson@dc.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 4:02 PM
To: Mitchell, Katherine (Council)
Cc: Coombs, John (EOM); Chichester, Colette (DOH)
Subject: FW: Data Request - Pancreas

Good afternoon Kate,

For your reference, the DOH Report on Pancreatic Cancer in the Stronghold Community is attached. 

Please let me know if you have questions.

Regards,

Patrice

From: Dickerson, Patrice (DOH)
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 2:48 PM
To: 'Mitchell, Katherine (Council)'
Cc: Chichester, Colette (DOH); Coombs, John (EOM)
Subject: RE: Data Request - Pancreas

Hi Kate,

Thank you for your email.  DOH is aware of the constituent’s claims.  We are researching the issue now.  We agree that this is time sensitive and will contact you as soon as relevant data and analysis is available. 

Regards,

Patrice

From: Mitchell, Katherine (Council) [mailto:kmitchell@DCCOUNCIL.US]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 9:48 AM
To: Dickerson, Patrice (DOH)
Subject: RE: Data Request - Pancreas

Hi Patrice,

I need to discuss an issue that has arisen in the Stronghold community. We were contacted by a constituent who claims that the neighborhood is seeing a higher than average number of pancreatic cancer cases. I contacted Alicia Vargas to pull some data on the District-wide and Ward 5-specific cases, but I haven’t heard back. The issue is time sensitive, so if we could chat sometime this afternoon, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Kate Mitchell, Esq.
Legislative Counsel
Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, Ward 5
Chair Pro Tempore
Chair, Committee on Government Operations
Council of the District of Columbia
1350 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Ste. 506
Washington, DC 20004
202.724.8155 (direct)
kmitchell@dccouncil.us

Please visit www.kenyanmcduffie.com for the latest updates.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mitchell, Katherine (Council)
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 9:07 AM
To: Vargas, Alicia (DOH)
Cc: Mobley, Levonnia (Council)
Subject: RE: Data Request - Pancreas

Hi Alicia,

Do you have an update on when we might receive the requested information?

Thanks so much,

Kate
________________________________________
From: Mitchell, Katherine (Council)
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:33 PM
To: Vargas, Alicia (DOH)
Subject: RE: Data Request - Pancreas

Thank you, Alicia. Please find the completed form attached.

Kate

Kate Mitchell, Esq.
Legislative Counsel
Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, Ward 5
Chair Pro Tempore
Chair, Committee on Government Operations Council of the District of Columbia
1350 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Ste. 506
Washington, DC 20004
202.724.8155 (direct)
kmitchell@dccouncil.us>

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From: Vargas, Alicia (DOH) [mailto:alicia.vargas@dc.gov]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:13 PM
To: Mitchell, Katherine (Council)
Subject: FW: Data Request - Pancreas

Good afternoon,

Attached you will find the data request form, please complete, sign, scan and send it back to us and please remember to specify that you request a map by ward.

Thank you for your interest in our data.

Alicia Vargas
Program Specialist
District of Columbia Cancer Registry
Bureau of Cancer and Chronic Disease
Community Health Administration
Department of Health
899 North Capitol Street, NE, 3rd floor
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-724-7703
Fax: 202-442-9432
E-mail: alicia.vargas@dc.gov>
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1 comment:

Golden Rule said...

I am a Stronghold resident very concerned about this matter. I beg of you to review carefully this investigative report by DOH and documents posted before accepting their conclusion. Our concern is the number of cases of pancreatic and related cases in the 18 month period from the first known death in December 2012 to present. There are 6 cases within 12 small blocks during that short period of this rare and deadly cancer. We expected the investigation to follow the guidelines of National Cancer Institute and CDC guidelines for investigating cancer clusters and responding to community concerns. There have not been any visits, interviews, meetings from DOH on this matter although there has been media coverage. The e-mails posted on this site show DOH lack of response and concern in this urgent matter. Although information was requested as early as April 11 it took DOH a month to compile this report. Please note in this report that the DOH statistics on Table 2, page 4 does not include data for 2014 and Table 3 on page 6 does not include 2012, 2013 or 2014, so of course they found no significant increase.

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