Invited Perspective: Insights into Exposure to Industrial Solvents and Cancer Risk at Camp Lejeune
Menée auprès de 318 305 US Marines et de travailleurs civils ayant exercé en Caroline du Nord sur la période 1975-1985, cette étude analyse l'incidence des cancers pouvant être associés à une consommation d'eau potable contaminée par des solvants industriels
The historical contamination of drinking water at Camp Lejeune, located in Jacksonville, North Carolina, with chemicals such as trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, vinyl chloride, and benzene has long been of public and scientific concern. In this issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, Bove et al.1 build on investigations comparing cancer mortality among Marine Corps and Navy personnel and civilians at Camp Lejeune with similar cohorts at Camp Pendleton, California.2–4 The prior studies yielded observations of increased deaths from multiple cancers, including of the kidney and lung, but were limited in ability to evaluate highly survivable cancers and possibly others with older age of onset, particularly given the younger age distribution among military personnel. This new work, based on incident cancers ascertained over more than 20 y of prospective follow-up, overcomes those prior limitations and enables the first opportunity to investigate associations by histological subtype.
Environmental Health Perspectives , éditorial en libre accès, 2023