It Can Vary with Where You Live in Maine.'

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Mainers are known to have higher rates of cancer than other Americans. But your odds of having the disease and surviving it vary depending on where in Maine you live, according to a new statewide report.

Cancer patients in Aroostook County are more likely to die from the disease than patients in Cumberland County, for example.

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It Can Vary with Where You Live in Maine.'

Rural Maine counties such as Aroostook also have higher rates of heart attacks, diabetes and asthma, the report says.

Cumberland County, on the other hand, leads the state in chronic alcohol abuse.

Those and other county-by-county variations are revealed in Maine's first stat...

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