A new study finds military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune between 1975 and 1985 show a 20% higher risk for a certain cancers than those stationed elsewhere.
Federal health officials called the research one the largest ever done in the United States to assess cancer risk by comparing a group who live and worked in a polluted environment to a similar group that did not.
People who got sick after being at Camp Lejeune have accused the Marine Corps of failing to protect the health of its personnel and criticized the federal government for being slow to investigate.
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