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Morbidity study of former marines, employees, and dependents potentially exposed to contaminated drinking water at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
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April, 2018
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Description:On January 28, 2008, President George W. Bush signed H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 which required the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to develop a health survey that would collect personal health information from all persons who could be identified as potentially exposed to drinking water contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), and other volatile organic compounds at Camp Lejeune. In response to this Act, ATSDR conducted a health survey in 2011-2012 to collect information on cancers, other diseases of interest, and lifestyle and demographic factors. The survey specifically asked about cancers and diseases that were selected based on an extensive literature review of occupational and drinking water studies involving solvent exposure. The survey included cancers of the bladder, brain, breast, cervix, colon, esophagus, hematopoietic system (lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma), kidney, liver, lung, larynx, pancreas, pharynx, prostate, rectum, and soft tissue; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); aplastic anemia; endometriosis; infertility; kidney and liver diseases; lupus; multiple sclerosis (MS); Parkinson disease; scleroderma; and trichloroethylene-related skin disorders.
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