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Local parents ask Amador supervisors to press agencies on cluster of childhood cancer cases
Summary
A local group reported five childhood cancer diagnoses since late 2023 — three clustered in Ione — and urged county supervisors to press state and local agencies for environmental testing; Public Health said the state investigated and found no corroborating evidence but the county will continue monitoring.
A group formed by parents and community members, Amador’s Heart of Gold, asked the Amador County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 13 to press state and local agencies to investigate a cluster of childhood cancer diagnoses that civic volunteers say has affected five children in the past two years.
Patricia Anjija, treasurer of the newly formed nonprofit, said three children who were diagnosed in 2024 live within about a mile of one another in Ione and that cases range in diagnosis…
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