Camp LeJeuene Marines Are Looking for The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten

Mike Partain Photo © The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten

Mike Partain wants to hear from you, if you lived at Camp LeJeuene any time from 1957 until 1987. Although Mike does not drink, smoke, or carry the BRCA genes, he was diagnosed with male breast cancer in April 2007, had a mastectomy and 6 months of chemo. Just having lived at Camp LeJeune from 1967-1968 put him at risk, because the water on base was contaminated with the chemicals TCE (trichloroethylene) and PCE (perchloroethylene). Male breast cancer is not the only possible result of exposure to these chemicals, and many others who lived at Camp LeJeuene during those 30 years were affected in a variety of ways. Mike Partain and others have joined forces to find other people that may have health problems related to toxic water at Camp LeJeuene. "This issue represents an avenue for us as a society to finally identify a link between breast cancer (as well as several other cancers) and a particular substance we make and dispose of in the environment," wrote Mike. At their website, The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten, you can read more about the history of water contamination at the base, and the consequences, as well as network with others who were exposed to these chemicals.

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