[CPEO-MEF] Cancer near Kelly Air Force Base (TX0

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Liver cancer in Bexar County a puzzle

Don Finley
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
September 16, 2007


Vilma Moran seemed an unlikely candidate for cirrhosis of the liver, 
which her doctor said explained her swollen abdomen and yellowing eyes. 
In her 60 years of life, she had consumed probably 10 alcoholic 
beverages. She didn't smoke, didn't have hepatitis.

She was diabetic, which is a risk factor. But when it was found later 
that she had liver cancer, the surgeon asked if she'd ever worked in a 
chemical plant. The type of cancer she had suggested a chemical 
exposure, he said. No, she told him, she worked with special education 
children at Lowell Middle School.

Then she and her husband recalled a letter they had received four years 
earlier, inviting them to a neighborhood meeting to discuss a plume of 
contaminated groundwater linked to the shuttered Kelly AFB. They had 
ignored the invitation. She had lived near Kelly almost all her life. 
Her father had maintained the base golf course.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA091607.01BLiver_Cancer.33f665e.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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