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Health
In the late 2000s, Maria Konoff, a former resident of Port Clinton who suffered from thyroid cancer earlier in her life, expressed concern that there was a high number of cancer cases, especially of thyroid cancer cases, in Port Clinton, and proposed the possibility of a cancer cluster in the area. After requested by the Ottawa County Health Department, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) conducted an analysis of the cancer rates in the Port Clinton area from 1996 to 2007 to determine whether the numbers were particularly unusual. The ODH concluded that there existed no "cancer cluster", as the types of cancer in the area were diverse