{"id":85068,"date":"2026-07-31T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85068"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:36:01","slug":"nj-cancer-cluster-neighborhood-now-has-nearly-400-cases-as-new-tests-point-to-troubling-carcinogen-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/nj-cancer-cluster-neighborhood-now-has-nearly-400-cases-as-new-tests-point-to-troubling-carcinogen-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ \u2018Cancer Cluster\u2019 Neighborhood Now Has Nearly 400 Cases \u2014 As New Tests Point To Troubling Carcinogen Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/sal-liguori-brings-together-members-136043933.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Keyport Mayor Rose P. Araneo speaks to community members about the former Aeromarine manufacturing site and adjacent landfill, with a &quot;CLEAN UP AEROMARINE NOW&quot; banner visible.\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In February, a man started\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/20\/health\/new-jersey-neighborhood-cancer-cluster-includes-28-on-one-street\/\">plotting out cancer cases<\/a>\u00a0in his hometown of Keyport, NJ, about 30 miles south of Newark. He recorded as many as 28 people with cancer on a single street.<\/p>\n<p>Now nearly 400 cancer cases in the area have been identified, including people with cancers of the lungs, prostate, brain, stomach, colon, thyroid, breast, appendix and kidneys.\u00a0Locals fear they could be living in a cancer cluster, where an unusual amount of cancer cases appear within an area within a certain period of time. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/risk-prevention\/understanding-cancer-risk\/cancer-clusters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Cancer Society\u00a0<\/a>estimates there are nearly 1,000 in the country. Locals say the cause is toxins from the nearby Aeromarine Industrial Park \u2014 a landfill that has been closed since 1979 \u2014 getting into the water and soil.\u00a0The NJ Department of Health did test the site in 2010 and found an abundance of carcinogens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): In February, a man started\u00a0plotting out cancer cases\u00a0in his hometown of Keyport, NJ, about 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}