Cancer Incidence among Marines and Navy Personnel and Civilian Workers Exposed to Industrial Solvents in Drinking Water at US Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune: A Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drinking water at US Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, was contaminated with trichloroethylene and other industrial solvents from 1953 to 1985.

Methods

A cohort cancer incidence study was conducted of Marines/Navy personnel who began service and were stationed at Camp Lejeune (N=154,821) or Camp Pendleton, California (N=163,484) between 1975 and 1985 and civilian workers employed at Camp Lejeune (N=6,494) or Camp Pendleton (N=5,797) between October 1972 and December 1985. Camp Pendleton's drinking water was not contaminated with industrial solvents. Individual-level information on primary invasive cancers and in situ bladder cancer diagnosed between 1996 and 2017 was obtained from 54 US cancer registries. Proportional hazards regression was us

SUBMITTER: Bove FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11500795 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature