[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITY, HEALTH: "Fighting for Frederick" (MD) meeting about Ft. Detrick Area B

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Event explores possible Detrick link to cancers


By Megan Eckstein
Frederick News Post (MD)
July 11, 2010
	
	
About 150 people gathered Saturday evening to learn more about cancer 
cases in Frederick and the possibility that a 1992 contamination problem 
at Fort Detrick's Area B is connected to the illnesses.

Randy White, a Florida pastor, started the Kristen Renee Foundation 
after one of his daughters died at age 30 from a brain tumor. His other 
daughter developed stomach tumors, and his ex-wife is fighting renal 
cell carcinoma. The three women lived on Lake Coventry Drive from 1995 
to 2005, just tenths of a mile from the edge of Area B.

White said the goal of his foundation was originally to help those with 
cancer, but when doctors told him that his family's cancer cases were 
not genetic, he started a quest to find the cause of their cancers and 
fix the problem before more people got sick.

White hosted Saturday's "Fighting for Frederick" event with his family, 
a team of scientists he hired to investigate contamination near Area B, 
and his friend and former professional baseball player Darryl 
Strawberry, who twice fought colon cancer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=107211

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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