[CPEO-MEF] Cancer along the Alaska highway

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tiny community devastated by cancer 

Diana Campbell 
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
December 8, 2004

ALONG THE ALASKA HIGHWAY--Peter Charles was a healthy man, accustomed to
hard work. Often he would have to accept jobs away from his Dot Lake
home to support his family.

It was when he was away from home in 1965, working construction at Ladd
Field, now known as Fort Wainwright, that he suddenly become ill.

The doctors determined he had leukemia, then rare among Alaska Natives.
At that time, only 80 Natives annually were being diagnosed with some
type of cancer.

?

After he was treated briefly at the Alaska Native Medical Center in
Anchorage, doctors flew him to Bethesda Naval Medical Center in
Maryland. Family members didn't think it strange then but now wonder why
he was sent to a military hospital; he wasn't a veteran.

They wonder if there is a connection between military chemical testing
or contamination that may have occurred in or near Dot Lake. 

?

For the entire article, see
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2583877,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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