Cell phone tower shut down at elementary school after eight kids are diagnosed ...

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Eight children have been diagnosed with cancer at the same elementary school - prompting parents' fears that a cell phone tower could be to blame.

The affected students at Weston Elementary School in Ripon are all under the age of 10, each with different types of cancer: brain, kidney, liver and lymphoma.

There is scant evidence that cell phone towers pose a real risk to humans, but even skeptics say the number of cases affecting children in such a small city is unusual.

Sprint, which owns the tower, has shut it down despite insisting the radio frequency levels are 100 times below the federal limit.

But the kids' mothers say their own private investigator found much higher levels, though still below the limit.