[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH, GLOBAL: "Quebec area where cancer rates are 80 times higher to be studied"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Quebec area where cancer rates are 80 times higher to be studied

By RHÉAL SÉGUIN
Toronto Globe and Mail (ONT)
May 20, 2013

It's been more than 15 years since her husband died of a brain tumour, but Candide Bélanger feels she may finally get some answers about why he died.

Jacques Trottier died in 1995 at the age of 62. The couple had lived for 17 years next to the Valcartier military base in Shannon, where many experts believe the drinking water was laced with trichloroethylene or TCE. The solvent, which strips grease from metal, was used by a munitions manufacturer on the base for more than 40 years.

Last week the Quebec City regional public health agency announced it had hired eight international experts to examine more than 500 cases of cancer in the area and look at what happened.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-area-where-cancer-rates-are-80-times-higher-to-be-studied/article12033398/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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