[CPEO-MEF] Health Risk Assessments

[maico55@aol.com]

RE:  Marty Martinson--Former NAS Alameda

    The Health Risk Assessment Process is flawed in the fact that servicemen 
and their families move frequently.  By the time a health problem surfaces, 
they are at another base, maybe having moved at least once if not several 
times since a possible contamination occurred.   This was brought home loud 
and clear when a daughter who had lived on several bases in the past ten 
years was diagnosed with a rare type of lymphoma.  On one base she lived on 
top of a former dump site-on another she lived on near a base where Agent 
Orange was stored (a study has shown higher incidences of cancers in this 
area).  Now that her husband is stationed at another base, she has been 
diagnosed with this rare form of lymphoma.  Is it connected to any of the 
bases?--we don't know.  Do those bases have her lymphoma noted as a cancer
in 
their area?  Of course not, she has moved.  I feel that this is certainly
not 
an isolated case and I believe that any cancer that is noted at a military  
base or hospital should be reported to ATSDR along with all the bases on 
which the person has served or the spouse has lived on or near.   That would 
enable the studies that are performed at these bases to have more credible 
data.

Sandy Steele
(formerly  March Air Force Base RAB member)

1361 E. Snowball Circle
Sandy, UT  84092
Maico55@aol.com



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