[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: "Ex-Marine in a fight for her life after Camp Lejeune exposure"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ex-Marine in a fight for her life after Camp Lejeune exposure

By Ruben Rosario
St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
February 1, 2014

Theresa Clark has Stage 4 breast cancer that has spread to other  
parts of her body.

Although she hasn't been given a definite prognosis, the 54-year-old  
Marine veteran from Elko was informed recently that there is no  
treatment that will reverse her condition. She now has a four-hour  
chemotherapy session every third week in the hope that the cancer  
will be kept at bay in some manner.

…

Up to 1 million Marine veterans, family members and others living or  
working at the base between 1957 and 1987 drank, showered and cooked  
with water contaminated by toxins linked to a variety of cancers and  
birth defects.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_25044808/ruben-rosario-ex- 
marine-fight-her-life-after

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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