Former RCMP officer who guarded crashed radioactive satellite in Arctic connecting assignment to cancer diagnosis

Former RCMP officer who guarded crashed radioactive satellite in Arctic connecting assignment to cancer diagnosis

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A former RCMP officer who attended a crashed Soviet satellite in the Arctic nearly 50 years ago believes the radiation from the satellite has caused his rare cancer.

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