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image Remember the movie “A Civil Action”, which was based on a real-life lawsuit in Massachusetts over people dying or getting very ill over contaminated drinking water?

And there’s, of course, “Erin Brockovich”, which tackled the same sort of thing in California.

Well, another case may be here in Missouri: Fears of a "cluster" are circulating in the town of Cameron, as more than a dozen residents have been diagnosed with brain tumors in the past seven months.

Pharmacist Steve Erickson was among the first in the town of 6,500 to become concerned over the flurry of brain tumor cases. Erickson told KMBC.com that he knows most of the families in town and immediately realized something was wrong.

Most of the tumors diagnosed in Cameron are large, but benign. Because doctors are required to report cancerous tumors only to the state Health Department, no agency is officially collecting data on the occurrences.

The one thing residents have in common is drinking water. A single reservoir is the source of the town's water supply. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it will look at any possible runoff near the reservoir and any possibility of contamination from a nearby hog farm, the Web site reports.

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