Showing posts with label 39 other Marines with the rare male breast cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 39 other Marines with the rare male breast cancer. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Camp Lejeune Marines get breast cancer

40 men from Camp Lejeune now report breast cancer

By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer, Tampa, FL.
William R. Levesque can be reached at (813) 226-3432.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/veterans/40-men-from-camp-lejeune-now-report-breast-cancer/1042131

A Florida man with male breast cancer says he has now identified 39 other men with the rare disease who all share one thing: They lived at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The numbers surprise scientists studying water contamination at the Marine Corps installation where up to a million Marines and family members may have been exposed to tainted water during 30 years ending in the late 1980s.

http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfoct09/nf100809-6.htm