The investigation into an unusually high rate of cancer in Windsor's Remington Park area is coming to an end in December.
Windsor-Essex Medical Officer of Health Dr. Gary Kirk says they've reached about a third of the people targeted in the study.
"We've contacted roughly eight of those individuals and we've tried to do this as intensely as we can by working with the media to let people know that we're looking for them," says Dr. Kirk.
Twenty-four people living in the Remington Park area from 2000 to 2009 were diagnosed with lung cancer — double the provincial average.
Dr. Kirk didn't have a cost figure attached to the health unit's investigation as of Wednesday's board meeting.
"It's taken some time from a number of people, but we think it's a good effort," says Dr. Kirk. "We like to work with the community and we feel it's our obligation to investigate."
The health unit has a questionnaire for those part of the target group to take with the data being analyzed after everything is compiled.
