Drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated with industrial solvents and other cancer-causing chemicals from 1953 until the mid-1980s.
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New study finds more cancers linked to tainted water at Camp Lejeune,
Military and civilian personnel who lived and worked at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina in the mid-1970s and ’80s are more likely to be diagnosed with certain cancers compared with those stationed at a similar military base in California during the same period, a highly anticipated new government study shows.
