To consider selling ym house as next door neighbour has cancer!

[mummytopebs]

Bit of background our house was 1 of 4 built around 40 years ago on a plot of land on the end of a original street (the houses were added on in a sense).

We have lived here for 2 years. The lady who we bought the house off had breast cancer but thankfully survived. Next door neighbour on one side died of lung cancer 3 years ago, the lady who adjoined that house died of breast cancer 10 years ago and now our other neighbours one of them has just been diagnosed with cancer. So thats 4 houses and 4 cases of cancer!! I am a bit ocncerned for me and my young family that maybe they have been built on something!! Or am i just being silly wwyd?

i tend to think you're overreacting a bit.
however, i can also understand why you'dbe worried

when you bought the house did the survey shpw anything up? I know when we did ours the environmental bit said we were free of a number of chemicals etc etc
might be worth looking back through all your papers to see if anything was mentioned

if it's going to worry you silly then move!

I think it's reasonable to seek answers if you are concerned - and check out info about whether these cancers are associated with specific environmental cncerns.

When you bought the house you will have had an EA survey report that would show if it was on landfill or something like that - but given there is a long history of other houses in the area that seems unlikely.

But I wouldn't go to the huge expense and trouble of moving house just because over 10 years the incidence of a range of cancers seems in line with the national average!

Also, you can hardly do a 'cancer survey' on the next street you move to, so you might find a similiar history!

Correlation does not equal causation ... but it doesn't stop me from ... for eg ... fearing that I will miscarry when many of my friends have, if that makes sense.