Alexa Brown

The Clyde cancer cluster (often incorrectly stylized in the media as Clyde Cancer Cluster, as well as being given various other names) is the name of a childhood cancer cluster that is taking place in Clyde, Ohio, United States as well as in other nearby and surrounding areas. The cluster was formerly referred to as the Clyde cancer study, before it was classified as a cancer cluster by the Ohio Department of Health in 2009. Despite years of investigation, no cause for the unusual rate of cancer has been found.Funding related to the cancer cases is aided by several local fundraisers. The reactions of residents of Clyde were often irate, as to this day there are still no results about the definite causes of the cluster. Especially after the death of Alexa Brown, her parents, Warren and Wendy Brown, promised to contribute to the solving of the issue. They traveled to Washington, D.C. to urge Senator Sherrod Brown to contribute to federal funding.After the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency carried out soil tests in the Whirlpool Corporations former corporate park, Whirlpool Park, in Green Springs, Ohio, it was apparent that soil on the property contained polychlorinated biphenyls. Whirlpool Corporation faced two lawsuits, perhaps the most notable one being Brown v. Whirlpool Corporation, of which the main plaintiff was Wendy Brown, as the park is perhaps the most well known suspected cause of the cluster. This lawsuit was dismissed in 2014, and the other, Sandusky County v. Whirlpool Corporation, was withdrawn in 2015. In January 2016, the EPA reported that Whirlpool Park had been cleared of PCB contamination.

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