{"id":31767,"date":"2024-01-31T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/01\/31\/camp-lejeune-water-contamination-tied-to-several-cancers-study-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:12:50","slug":"camp-lejeune-water-contamination-tied-to-several-cancers-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/veterans\/2024\/01\/31\/camp-lejeune-water-contamination-tied-to-several-cancers-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Lejeune water contamination tied to several cancers, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military personnel stationed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/08\/18\/dont-expect-quick-payouts-from-camp-lejeune-water-lawsuits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Lejeune, North Carolina,<\/a> from 1975\u20131985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers than those stationed elsewhere, federal health officials said Wednesday in a long-awaited study about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2017\/03\/14\/va-finalizes-disability-benefits-plans-for-contaminated-water-exposure-at-camp-lejeune\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina base\u2019s contaminated drinking water.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal health officials called the research one the largest ever done in the United States to assess cancer risk by comparing a group who live and worked in a polluted environment to a similar group that did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study found military personnel stationed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2022\/08\/10\/camp-lejeune-toxic-water-victims-families-are-now-closer-to-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, <\/a>were at higher risk for some types of leukemia and lymphoma and cancers of the lung, breast, throat, esophagus and thyroid. Civilians who worked at the base also were at a higher risk for a shorter list of cancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study is \u201cquite impressive,\u201d but cannot count as final proof that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/burn-pits\/2022\/08\/04\/now-that-the-pact-act-passed-how-soon-will-veterans-see-their-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\">the tainted drinking water<\/a> caused the cancers, said David Savitz, a Brown University disease researcher who is consulting for plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys in Camp Lejeune-related litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/08\/18\/dont-expect-quick-payouts-from-camp-lejeune-water-lawsuits\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_1644.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Don\u2019t expect quick payouts from Camp Lejeune toxic water lawsuits<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Simply serving at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, during the 25-year eligibility period isn\u2019t enough to guarantee a cash settlement.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is not something we\u2019re going to be able to resolve definitively,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are talking about exposures that happened (decades ago) that were not well documented.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he said the new research will add weight to arguments made on behalf of people who got sick after living and working at the base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Camp Lejeune was built in a sandy pine forest along the North Carolina coast in the early 1940s. Its drinking water was contaminated with industrial solvents from the early 1950s to 1985. The contamination \u2014 detected in the early 1980s \u2014 was blamed on a poorly maintained fuel depot and indiscriminate dumping on the base, as well as from an off-base dry cleaner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before wells were shut down, contaminated water was piped to barracks, offices, housing for enlisted families, schools and the base\u2019s hospital. Military personnel and families drank it, cooked with it and bathed in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contamination has spawned a wave of litigation by law firms who have aggressively sought out clients with TV ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People who got sick after being at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, have accused the Marine Corps of failing to protect the health of its personnel and criticized the federal government for being slow to investigate. Marine Corps officials have repeatedly said that federal environmental regulations for these cancer-causing chemicals were not finalized until 1989, after the wells were shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, or ATSDR, an Atlanta-based sister agency to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has done about a half-dozen studies focused on health problems in people at Camp Lejeune. Those studies were smaller than the new one, and had varied focuses, including male breast cancer rates and birth defects in children born to base personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The earlier studies pointed out health risks, but the new work \u201cmore fully establishes the scope,\u201d said Richard Clapp, a Boston University emeritus public health professor who has been involved in past Camp Lejeune research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Aaron Bernstein, the head of the ATSDR and CDC\u2019s environmental health programs, called the new study \u201cremarkable\u201d for being bigger and more rigorous than past research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the new paper, the ATSDR investigated cancer in about 211,000 people who were stationed at or worked at Camp Lejeune between 1975 and 1985 and compared them to about 224,000 people at California\u2019s Camp Pendleton \u2014 which was not known to have polluted groundwater \u2014 during the same time period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frank Bove, a senior epidemiologist, has led the agency\u2019s Camp Lejeune research for many years and was in charge of the latest study. He relied on staff at Battelle Memorial Institute and others to comb through cancer registries across the country to look for cases tied to either base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They found a similar number of malignant cancers in each group, about 12,000. But the numbers \u2014 and the relative risks calculated from those numbers \u2014 were higher in the Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, population for a number of specific types of cancer. That list included some that weren\u2019t clearly identified in some earlier studies, most notably thyroid cancer, Clapp said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A federal law signed by President Joe Biden in August 2022 included language to address concerns of people who developed certain health problems they believe were linked to Camp Lejeune water contamination. It gave them a two-year window to file claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new study may lead to inclusion of thyroid cancer to be added to the list of diseases for which Camp Lejeune personnel and their families might one day be compensated, Clapp said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper, which underwent external peer review, is being submitted for publication, agency officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Science and Educational Media Group. 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