Many Millions Of People May Have Camp Lejeune Water Cancer Including The Offspring Of Children Raised On The Base

People with cancer and the parents of children with birth defects now have answers as to what caused their medical problems

Sunday, December 4, 2022 - More than one million individuals spent at least 30-days at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 and drank enough contaminated tap water to cause cancer. US Marines, soldiers from other branches of the military, civilian employees and contractors, and the family members of each group all are at risk of developing Camp Lejeune cancer or spreading the genes that could lead to cancer in future offspring. Of immediate concern is the spate of birth defects the children of those who grew up as children on the base have been inflicted with. Thousands of young families were raised at Camp Lejeune. Children attended daycare, grade school, and played sports, and participated in other recreational activities at Camp Lejeune. All of the above groups drank, cooked with, and bathed in what is now believed to be water contaminated with carcinogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) thought to have been caused by leakage from unlined underground waste disposal pits, degreasing solvent used to clean weaponry and machinery, and toxic dry cleaning waste dumped illegally by a local uniform cleaning company into nearby storm drains. In addition, it is alleged by the North Carolina State Attorney General that the firefighting foam used on the base and at the local military airport contained PFAS forever chemicals that leached into the local water system and also contaminated it. The AG has filed a Camp Lejeune water lawsuit against 3M, DuPont, and dozens of other companies involved in the manufacturing and marketing of firefighting foam alleging that the companies knew the product would eventually destroy the local environment.

During the past fifty years, thousands of children that have been born with severe birth defects and those who would die at a young age due to childhood cancer. CNN reports that Ann Johnson was married to a Marine and lived at Camp Lejeune in 1984 when their daughter was born with severe birth defects including a deformed pallet that hindered her breathing. The child eventually died from stopping breathing due to her birth defect. Ms. Johnson never considered that her daughter's medical condition could be caused by drinking the Camp Lejeune tap water and took responsibility for causing the disease herself. Johnson has gone on to file a Camp Lejeune Justice Act claim seeking lump-sum monetary compensation from the military under the Act. CNN also identified an individual who would visit his father at Camp Lejeune regularly as a youngster and developed kidney cancer later in life. Kidney cancer is one of the more prevalent forms of cancer associated with drinking Camp Lejeune water because water is filtered through the kidneys. "When I was 17, I was diagnosed with what's called a Wilms tumor, which is a cancer of the kidney," he said. Kidney cancer is one of the diseases now potentially linked to the chemicals in the water on the base, the Department of Veterans Affairs says. He needed surgery, and cancer spread to his lungs."

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