But some of them were amazed to find that the children had known all along that there was something very serious going on, but hadn't known what it was until the mother had actually told them.

We were building on work done earlier, in which women with early breast cancer were interviewed, and it was discovered that talking to their children about their disease contributed to their distress.

Even the very young ones knew that cancer could kill you and they didn't differentiate between different types of cancers, at all. Cancer was cancer and it involved a threat of death.

In general in the state we're seeing the number of children being tested to be somewhat less than we would expect.

If a small percentage of children are getting tested, and maybe not the ones that are most at risk, then we can't tell a whole lot about the prevalence. There could be a big problem there and we're not detecting it.

When you have a large percentage of pre-1978 property and you also have lots of children in poverty, then you're going to have a lot of children at risk for lead poisoning.