[CPEO-MEF] Kelly Air Force Base (TX) liver cancer study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Study targets liver cancer deaths 

Jerry Needham
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
February 10, 2006 

The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District launched a study Thursday
aimed at determining if environmental contamination from the former
Kelly AFB has played a role in excessive liver cancer deaths in ZIP
codes around the facility. 

Health Care Resolution Services Inc., a Maryland firm selected after a
request for proposals was issued last October, will conduct the
six-month study, said Fernando Guerra, district health director. 

About 40 people showed up for a public meeting at Brentwood Middle
School on Thursday night in response to 23,000 letters the health
department sent out to get public input into the study. 

Tim Aldrich, an epidemiologist who is a professor at East Tennessee
State University, will lead the $20,000 study. The Air Force Real
Property Agency, which is overseeing the cleanup of pollution at and
around the former base, which closed in 2001, is paying for the study. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA021006.07B.liver_cancer.10cc9131.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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