Man Blames Marine Base For Breast Cancer

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Two Toxins Contaminated Water At Camp Lejeune

UPDATED: 12:02 pm EDT June 4, 2008

Mike Partain, who was born in Tarawa Terrace at the Marines' Camp Lejeune in 1968, believes that toxins in the water there caused him to get breast cancer.

Reports from a government agency have found two toxins in water at the North Carolina base that are thought to have caused cancer and birth defects in Marines who were stationed there and their families.

On April 25, 2007, Partain was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 39. He underwent surgery on May 4 to remove the tumor.

With no family history of this cancer and his risk of male breast cancer being less than 1 percent, according to the American Cancer Society, Partain said he believes it probably stemmed from exposure to a chemical called PCE.

There are an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people exposed to the chemicals tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene, known as PCE and TCE, between 1957 and 1985 in the water they drank, bathed in, and cooked with at Camp Lejeune, estimates Frank Bove, senior epidemiologist at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

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