Veterans And Survivors Are Astonished That Drinking Camp Lejeune Tap Water Caused Terminal Cancer

Cancer is an insidious and often terminal disease that disrupts a family from its first diagnosis and continues to uproot the survivors long after the loved one has died

Sunday, September 4, 2022 - Cancer is unlike most other terminal illnesses in that the first symptoms, i.e. tiredness, lack of appetite, unexpected weight loss, pain, and many others do not become apparent until years after the disease was caused. Cancer's latency time makes its origins difficult to trace, however, each type of cancer can be associated with a specific behavior or place of residence or work. For example, a person may have developed lung cancer over a decade ago from smoking cigarettes. Working in a government building and inhaling asbestos for years on end may result in developing mesothelioma, a scarring of the lining of the lungs. Lawsuits today are associating using talc, paraquat, and glyphosate weed killers with developing ovarian cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, respectively. According to the VA, adult leukemia, aplastic anemia, and other myelodysplastic syndromes, bladder cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, kidney cancer, leukemia, liver cancer, lung cancer, multiple myeloma, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. " TribToday reports other illnesses the VA considers as associated with Camp Lejeune water as female infertility, miscarriages, hepatic steatosis, neurobehavioral difficulties, Parkinson's disease, renal toxicity, and scleroderma. Thousands of US Marines, civilian employees and contractors, and their family members have developed these types of cancer and others, and other illnesses years and sometimes decades after their deployment to Camp Lejeune Marine Base in North Carolina.

A typical example of the latency of cancer becoming evident many years after exposure, and the subsequent hardship one with the disease must suffer was covered in an article recently on Live5News, Columbia, South Carolina. The article tells the story of Neil Derrick, a US Marine living in Columbia, who was not diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer until 2018, having served at Camp Lejeune decades earlier in the 1970s. Mr. Derrick tells of having drunk the local tap water without giving its safety so much as a second thought. The knowledge that the Camp Lejeune tap water was contaminated with volatile organic compounds, benzene, and chlorine from unlined toxic waste disposal pits, leaky underground petroleum storage tanks, and a local dry cleaning company improperly disposing of cleaning solution waste by dumping it into a nearby storm drain, did not reach him until 1987 when the Marines came forward with the bad news. According to Live5News, "While Derrick said he may have been aware of the news of the contamination after that point, it did not resonate until after his diagnosis of bladder cancer in 2018, despite living a healthy lifestyle, having no family history of the disease and never smoking." Thousands of Camp Lejeune water lawsuits are expected to be filed in 2022 through August 2024, when the time to file officially expires. Marines with cancer and the surviving loved ones of those who have died from cancer and other water poisoning-related illnesses are just now being alerted to who and what is responsible for causing the disease.

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