[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: Camp Lejeune's "Poisoned Patriots"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Male breast cancer patients blame water at Marine base


From Abbie Boudreau and Scott Bronstein
CNN Special Investigations Unit
September 24, 2009

Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part series.

TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- The sick men are Marines, or sons of Marines. 
All 20 of them were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine 
Corps' training base in North Carolina, between the 1960s and the 1980s.

They all have had breast cancer -- a disease that strikes fewer than 
2,000 men in the United States a year, compared with about 200,000 
women. Each has had part of his chest removed as part of his treatment, 
along with chemotherapy, radiation or both.

And they blame their time at Camp Lejeune, where government records show 
drinking water was contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals for 
three decades, for their illnesses.

"We come from all walks of life," said Mike Partain, the son and 
grandson of Marines, who was born on the base 40 years ago. "And some of 
us have college degrees, some of us have blue-collar jobs. We are all 
over the country. And what is our commonality? Our commonality is that 
we all at some point in our lives drank the water at Camp Lejeune. Go 
figure."

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/24/marines.breast.cancer/

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Lenny Siegel
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