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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.
The long-awaited study found at least a 20% higher risk for cancers in those stationed there from 1975 to 1985.
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.
One of the largest cancer risk research projects ever done has tied a 20% increase in risk of certain types of cancer to being stationed at Came Lejeune from 1975 to 1985.
Military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers ...