No evidence of tumor cluster at Newton-Wellesley Hospital after 11 reported tumors in nurses, external review finds

The review found that the hospital’s facility did not cause the tumors.

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An external review concluded there is no evidence of a workplace tumor cluster at Newton-Wellesley Hospital after 11 nurses working on the same floor reported being diagnosed with brain tumors.

According to the report published March 30, Stefanos Kales, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, concluded that “the overall hospital environment is safe” and that the reported cases do not appear to represent a true workplace tumor cluster…

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