[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: 40 Camp Lejeune(NC)-linked male breast cancer cases

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

40 men from Lejeune now report breast cancer

By William R. Levesque
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
October 6, 2009

A Florida man with male breast cancer says he has now identified 39 
other men with the rare disease who all share one thing: They lived at 
Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

The numbers surprise scientists studying water contamination at the 
Marine Corps installation where up to a million Marines and family 
members may have been exposed to tainted water during 30 years ending in 
the late 1980s.

Among them are more than 12,000 Floridians who have signed up for a 
health survey.

"This is statistically unheard of," said Tallahassee resident Mike 
Partain, 41, a breast cancer survivor who was born at the base and is 
looking for others like himself. "We've got a cancer cluster that defies 
explanation."

The cluster is expected to be discussed Thursday when the U.S. Senate 
Committee on Veterans Affairs holds a hearing on contamination at U.S. 
military installations. A Marine Corps major general is expected to 
testify, as will Partain.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/veterans/40-men-from-camp-lejeune-now-report-breast-cancer/1042131

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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