Oct 09
13
Marines with Breast Cancer Say Water Culprit
I read a really startling story, not to mention sad, about a group of about 20 marines that served their country at US camp Lejeune for years, and later turned up all having breast cancer at various stages – an extremely rare disease for men. To give you an idea of how rare breast cancer is for men, only about 2,000 men in the US were diagnosed with breast cancer last year. That means that 20 men who all happened to drink the same drinking water and all happened to be stationed at Camp Lejeune around the same time is pretty darn coincidental, if not downright hard evidence that the drinking water is to blame.
The story goes that the drinking water in Camp Lejeune has been contaminated with various toxic solvents since the mid eighties. The water system which comes from wells was thought to contribute to different illnesses, the most serious being these 20 cases of breast cancer that have popped up in men. The existence of breast cancer in men is very rare, and because men have different hormonal systems than women, it may also be a little trickier to actually treat and diagnose correctly.
Many times men, like women, will have to have one or both of their breasts removed, and also like women, their severity can differ between localized and metastatic (spreading) breast cancer, which invades other areas of the body and that’s when it becomes particularly deadly and dangerous to other areas of the body and other bodily functions that are vital to survival.
Investigations have supposedly been made into the allegations that the drinking water was toxic and nothing was done about it in a timely fashion, but doubt has been cast on the witnesses who were interviewed and how forthright they were being, perhaps out of fear for their jobs, but it seemed likely they may have been coached to give certain answers and to absolve the Marine Corp or any wrongdoing in the case. More to come on this very sad, but very interesting and telling story.
It’s also a sign that you and I should really be vigilant in making sure our drinking water is safe and pure to use. After all, you are what you eat and drink, and who wants to be drinking in chemicals that are known cancer causing agents?
