[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Does Camp Lejeune has a cancer cluster?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A Cancer Cluster Is Tough to Prove

by George Johnson
New York Times
February 18, 2015

Last month, thousands of Marines and their families were blocked in  
federal court from pursuing their claim that the government had given  
them cancer. The decision, involving people exposed to contaminated  
drinking water while stationed at Camp Lejeune, a base in North  
Carolina, didn’t consider the science.

Long before expert witnesses could be called to testify, a United  
States Court of Appeals let stand its earlier ruling that the lawsuit  
had come too late. It failed to meet the requirements of a state  
statute banning claims arising more than 10 years after the final  
occurrence of a harmful act.

...

Over all, Marines who had served at Lejeune were 10 percent more  
likely to die from cancer than their counterparts at Pendleton.  
Deaths from kidney cancer, for example, were 35 percent more likely.  
Altogether, 16 of 21 types of cancer showed modest increases at Lejeune.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/health/cancer-can-be-tough-case-to- 
prove.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150216&nlid=46605387&tntemail0=y


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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