[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: "Camp Lejeune [NC] water contamination tied to a range of cancers, CDC study says"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Camp Lejeune water contamination tied to a range of cancers, CDC study says

BY MIKE STOBBE
Associated Press
January 31, 2024


NEW YORK (AP) — Military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers than those stationed elsewhere, federal health officials said Wednesday in a long-awaited study about the North Carolina base’s contaminated drinking water.

Federal health officials called the research one the largest ever done in the United States to assess cancer risk by comparing a group who live and worked in a polluted environment to a similar group that did not.

The study found military personnel stationed at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune were at higher risk for some types of leukemia and lymphoma and cancers of the lung, breast, throat, esophagus and thyroid. Civilians who worked at the base also were at a higher risk for a shorter list of cancers.

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For the entire article, see
https://apnews.com/article/camp-lejeune-cancer-study-cdc-water-f78ba8393055839e8e5538c90336ee37

For the full report, see
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.27.24301873v1.full.pdf


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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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