Maywood residents blame Sterigenics for giving them cancer NBC Los Angeles [Video]

A group of residents in Los Angeles County say they are all suffering from cancer due to a toxic chemical being released from a company in their area, according to a lawsuit.

Dora Colato, who has been living in Maywood for 25 years, is one of the plaintiffs who claim there’s a cancer cluster in their neighborhood. Colato herself completed her latest round of chemotherapy last week after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018.

“It’s painful because … I came here to work and then I get sick,” said Colato. “Those things happen, but we have to continue.”

Colato, who says she has no family history of cancer, had essentially chalked up her diagnosis to bad luck until, she says, she received a flier from an environmental attorney named Gary Praglin.

“We discovered that there were some people here that didn’t know anything about Sterigenics’ ethylene oxide,” Praglin said.

Ethylene oxide…