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If you are a Veteran You May Have Been Exposed to Cancer Causing

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More people die of lung cancer in the United States than die of colon, prostate, breast, and kidney cancers combined. What surprises many people is that lung cancer is not necessarily caused by smoking. Many at risk groups and nonsmokers are also likely to develop the disease.

Some of the people who are the most at risk are United States veterans who served in the military between the Second World War and the Persian Gulf War. Recent studies indicate that this group has a 25% to 75% greater probability of developing lung cancer than people who didn't serve in the military during that time frame.

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Jim Davis, Veterans-For-Change

All the more reason why any Veteran should not take forgranted any illness, more likely than not it's service connected!

If you don't have a claim filed yet, GET ONE DONE NOW!

Then fight and keep fighting till you receive the benefits you earned and are owed!

3 votes

#1 - Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:10 PM EDT

gobbledegook

Gonna be lots of thyroid problems among returning female vets.

1 vote

#2 - Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:27 PM EDT

Jim Davis, Veterans-For-Change

Thyroid, lung, kidney, liver, bladder, you name it, it's already being diagnosed!

2 votes

#2.1 - Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:21 PM EDT

Ralph A. Perez

Everybody seem to think Thyroid medical problems is mainly a female medical problem. I thought the same thing until it happen to me. That is just one of the many medical problems I have since drinking the contaminated water at Camp LeJuene & El Toro Air Station. TCE,TCP,Benzene & other unregulated chemicals that were in the drinking water at both of those Bases. If you looked up side effects you will see that it kills your immune system, neurological system & causes cancer as well. Look up the web site TFTPTF.com & you will see that at least half of the veterans registered on this web site have some type Thyroid medical problem. Both Male & Female are affected the same. The only thing in common all these veteran have is that they (myself included) were all stationed at one of these Bases during their Military years. The EPA Label both of this Base as a Super Site. The sad part is The Marine Corps Knew it & let us all drink, shower & cook with this contaminated water & did not try to prevent or stop it. Now we are all sick or died from this water & The Marine Corps refuses to help us. For an organization that prides itself on not leaving anybody behind, they left us for died. They have forgotten the meaning of SIMPER FI.

1 vote

#2.2 - Mon Oct 4, 2010 12:27 PM EDT

Danese

lung cancer may be caused by all of the polution in the air, all of these diseases and bugs, viruses, bacteria. How hard do the trees works.

1 vote

#3 - Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:31 PM EDT

Jim Davis, Veterans-For-Change

Denise, evidently you've never served in the military!

Mustard Gas in WWI and WWII, Agent Orange Dioxin's in Korea and Vietnam, bio-chemicals & burn pits in the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq. TCE, PCE, Benzene, JP-4 & JP-8 Jet fuels and kerosene on the bases here in the United States and on board ships!

Millions of Veterans sick and dying or have already died due to constant and heavy exposures to these chemicals and more.

Tree's could never even begin to remove pollutants like this, read the papers on how we're spending $300m over 10 years in Vietnam to clean up Agent Orange which has already been determined would take more than 50 years to clean up!

2 votes

#3.1 - Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:20 PM EDT

Danese

Are you screeming at me? I have been trying to figure out... in the comment that you made in response to mine... if were your words said suddenly or with feeling. What was the meaning of the exclamation point? If you are Italian then I can understand the reason for an exclamation because I have Italian friends and therefore I know a little of their culture. I have been analyzing this since September 26, 2010. I would like to reply to your comment.

1 vote

#3.2 - Tue Oct 5, 2010 3:25 PM EDT

Jim Davis, Veterans-For-Change

Danese,

Had I been screaming I would have used all CAPS, but I didn't.

My ethnicity has no bearing on this issue what so ever, and not that it matters, I'm a white guy of English decent.

And if indeed you have been studying this only since 09/26/10, then I'd say you have a very long ways to go as I've been working on Veteran issues and illnesses for many years.

The evidence which is more than abundant on the internet, from Veterans, toxicologists, MD's can all be easily obtained and amounts to hundreds and hundreds of file boxes.

The article is about exposure to chemical contaminants to those in the service and those who have been discharged and were exposed prior to discharge.

Chemical exposure dates all the way back to WWI and WWII and every war since then.

The EPA also has listed 130 active and closed military bases nationwide as being badly contaminated from more than 40 chemicals.

You might also want to check on Agent Orange and Dioxin, which was supposedly outlawed, however you can still go to any home and garden store and buy "weed be gone" which contains dioxin!

Yet this is one of the most deadly chemicals known to those who served from Korea to Vietnam!

Millions of veterans suffer the illnesses from this chemical, many have died because of exposure and to date we're still losing on average and at minimum 356 veterans per day due to chemical contamination.

1 vote

#3.3 - Tue Oct 5, 2010 4:29 PM EDT

jacque wright

Jim - need some help - For a VA service connection to bladder cancer (male, 54, 25 yrs service, retired, exposure to JP-4, JP-8, etc. as an AF Maintenance Technician to Crew Chief) claim

Any direct evidence out there? Been looking. How to find old AF MSDS on jet fuel (70's 80's) to show no mention of toxicity, are chemicals such as diazanon in AO in jet fuel?

Tks, Jacque

#4 - Sun Jan 9, 2011 4:44 PM EST

Jim Davis, Veterans-For-Change

Jacque... contact me direct: JDAVIS92840@SBCGLOBAL.NET

#4.1 - Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:53 AM EST

jacque wright

Jim, thanks so much for your work and voice for the veterans! So appreciated!

I have sent you a message to your direct contact. If you don't get it, let me know, I'll resend -

The person I am doing this research for is James Jones - and I hope you can give permission for him to contact direct as well. All in my email. You're the Greatest! jacque

#5 - Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:11 PM EST

Judy Davis-4783420

I got out of the Air Force in 1976; while in the service I was an aircraft mechanic, with my main job being an engine mechanic. I was crosstrained due to a severe allery to the fuel and oil. Now the problem: In 1995, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double masectomy. Subsquent chemo therapy caused lung damage. I recently applied for service connected disability and it was denied and I was told that they need further information showing a correlation between the jet fuel exposure and breast cancer. {Any ideas or help?} In researching this, I have been alarmed to see the correlation between thyroid and other cancers mentioned. In 1979 I was put on thyroid due to problems, am still on it; in 1980, I had cervical cancer; and have had numerous medical problems and cancers. {COULD ANY OR PART OF THIS BE RELATED?} However, my biggest problem now it the lung problems caused by chemotherapy which I received (in a VA Hospital), subsquent to the breast cancer. What do I do and where do I go from here?

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