Cancer rates have surged 79 percent in patients under the age of 50 in the last three decades, according to at least one recent study .
It’s a statistic that hits painfully close to home for the students and staff at Clifford Marshall Elementary School in Quincy.
“Starting about two years ago, we just had a tremendous uptick in cancer cases among our staff and our staff families,” says Heather Patch, Marshall Elementary Principal…