Thanks for publishing "Cancer Cluster Alleged" (Feb. 22), on the cluster of cancers noted among Beverly Hills High School grads. You can make the "verified" number of cancers 86; I have lived one block downwind of the oil pump since 1991, and I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma a year ago. My kids, grads in '90 and '91, are OK so far. Anybody ask around the neighborhood for cancer incidences? I hope the good city fathers (and mothers!) put property-value considerations aside and explore this diligently and with integrity. It would be sad to see a modern version of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" in Beverly Hills.
L.L. Bova
Beverly Hills
