[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) and male breast cancer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More vets report cancer

By William R. Levesque
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
July 3, 2009

Scientists studying drinking water contamination at Camp Lejeune were 
startled when 11 men with breast cancer and ties to the North Carolina 
base were identified over the last two years.

Six more have been found in one week.

Five additional men with breast cancer and a sixth who had a double 
mastectomy after doctors found precancerous tumors contacted the St. 
Petersburg Times last week after reading a story about the 11 men with 
the rare disease.

"This male breast cancer cluster is a smoking gun," breast cancer 
survivor Mike Partain said on Friday. "You just can't ignore it. You 
don't need science to tell you something is wrong. It's common sense. It 
begs to be studied."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/veterans/article1015699.ece

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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