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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Residents of Kashmere Gardens in Fifth Ward say they have been dealing with a detrimental problem for years. “All our neighbors are dead. We have one, two, three, four original people. Everyone else has died off from cancer,” a concerned neighbor Sandra Edwards shared. Edwards believes her beloved neighborhood has had a cancer problem for years …

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