[CPEO-MEF] "New Camp Lejeune [NC] water study shows potential link to male breast cancer"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Camp Lejeune water study shows potential link to male breast cancer

By James LaPorta
Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
September 23, 2015 8:00AM


A new study indicates the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune and the development of male breast cancer in Marines exposed to it may be connected.

A new study indicates the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune and the development of male breast cancer in Marines exposed to it may be connected.

The study published last week in the Environmental Health journal by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease (ATSDR), a research team under the Center for Disease Control, looked at 444 male Marines born before 1969 who were treated for specific cancers by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Scientists found that 30 of them were stationed at Camp Lejeune during the worst water contamination case in U.S. history and would later be diagnosed with male breast cancer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/article/20150923/NEWS/150929706

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