It looks like any other county road in rural America, but a two-mile dirt track in Minnesota might be one of the deadliest cancer hotspots in the country.

All four of the homes on the two-mile stretch along County Road B in Dodge County have been touched by the disease, with the area now so notorious other locals call it 'cancer road'.

Since the 1980s, fifteen people have been diagnosed with tumors, often rarer and more aggressive forms, seven of whom have died.

One of the victims — truck driver Brian Bennerotte — claims he developed a cancerous mass 'the size of a basketball' that wrapped around his heart.

Experts have described the concentration of disease as 'eyebrow raising'.

Mr Bennerotte told DailyMail.com: 'We think this was caused by the drinking water and then the nitrates in the water. That is our feeling of what caused this spiral in cancer cases. There is cancer in every family.'