Medicine’s Jill Barnholtz-Sloan weighs in on phenomenon of ex-Phillies’ brain cancer diagnoses

Ex-Phillies wonder if stadium is to blame for players’ brain cancer

USA TodayJill Barnholtz-Sloan, associate professor in the School of Medicine, weighed in on whether the high number of former Philadelphia Phillies players being diagnosed with brain cancer is related to a common factor or just coincidence. “Unfortunately, I think what you may end up with is just a very bizarre circumstance,” she said.