| From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
| Date: | 7 Jun 2007 19:57:24 -0000 |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Kelly Air Force Base (TX) former workers' cancers |
Roddy Stinson: Former Kelly worker is wondering if base contaminants
caused cancer
Column by Roddy Stinson San Antonio Express-News (TX) June 6, 2007 On the Sleuthing Trail ...CASE: The other day I received a call from a 58-year-old San Antonio man who worked at Kelly AFB from 1983 to 1999. He said he recently had a cancerous kidney removed, and he wondered what I could tell him about Kelly workers' exposure to carcinogens that cause kidney cancer. Most of my Kelly-contamination research and the columns that reported my findings are 6 to 10 years old, and I told the cancer victim that I couldn't recall any specifics about kidney cancer. The problem proved to be my memory, not a lack of published information.A search of the Express-News archives turned up a dozen columns in which Kelly contaminants and potential kidney problems were discussed. ... For the entire article, see http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA060707.1B.rstinson.3489285.html -- 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 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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