100 people with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers

A single New Jersey man has uncovered a medical thriller apparently linking 100 individuals recognized with uncommon cancers to a Woodbridge highschool.

In 1999, when he was simply 27, Al Lupiano was recognized with a “very uncommon” and abnormally giant mind tumor for somebody his age referred to as Acoustic Neuroma (AN). Final summer season, Lupiano’s spouse and now-deceased sister have been recognized with uncommon types of mind most cancers on the identical day. His spouse was equally recognized with an abnormally giant AN tumor, and his sister was recognized with Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), which has an incident fee of 30 out of each 1 million individuals, Lupiano defined in a Fb publish that he has been updating since March 7.

“Their neurologist, who has been acknowledged as a world chief in neurosurgery by the World Federation of Neurological Societies, has handled and been concerned with tens of 1000’s of mind tumors in his profession. It’s his perception my spouse and I stands out as the first documented case of spouses having an AN, each roughly the identical measurement and on the identical aspect of the top…in keeping with him, the chances are perhaps 1 in a BILLION,” Lupiano stated. 

“To say he was involved when he found all three of us grew up in the identical neighborhood is an understatement. Why? There may be one properly documented reason behind mind tumors – radiation publicity,” he continued.

Lupiano ultimately arrived at a single linking issue between himself, his spouse and his sister: they every attended Colonia Excessive College in Woodbridge within the Nineties. However Lupiano was not initially positive that the highschool was a hyperlink to the same but uncommon mind most cancers circumstances till he made a request on Fb for others who attended Colonia to succeed in out to him personally.

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By April 11, he had heard from greater than 100 former Colonia Excessive College attendees who had been recognized with uncommon cancers.

Lupiano ultimately arrived at a single linking issue between himself, his spouse and his sister: they every attended Colonia Excessive College in Woodbridge within the Nineties. 
(Al Lupiano)

“[A]s of midnight Sunday 4/10, I recorded the a centesimal case of somebody having a major mind tumor,” Luapiano stated in an replace on his Faceboook publish. “I by no means in my worst nightmare envisioned ever hitting this milestone. That’s 100 individuals with their life ceaselessly modified. 100 households having to be advised the horrible information. 100 tales of shock and disbelief with the prognosis. I pray we discover solutions…(as of 18:00 4/11, the checklist stands at 102 people).”

In an earlier replace, Lupiano stated a lot of those that reached out to him about their mind most cancers circumstances “are former CHS academics and employees members who didn’t dwell in Colonia, they simply labored within the faculty.”

Colonia Excessive College entrance. 
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Lupiano is an environmental scientist who examined floor samples for toxins over the course of his profession and prompt that the varsity’s grounds may very well be contaminated, in keeping with NJ Highlight Information.

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Woodbridge Mayor John McCormack advised the outlet that his workplace initiated conversations with the Woodbridge Division of Well being and Human Companies, the Division of Environmental Safety and the Company for Poisonous Substance Illness Registry about opening investigations into potential radiation publicity stemming from the highschool’s campus. McCormack stated the city desires native and federal involvement within the investigation.

Lupiano additionally prompt a possible hyperlink between Colonia Excessive College and a Middlesex, New Jersey, sampling plant in his interview with NJ Highlight.

The Middlesex Sampling Plant, which has since closed, is positioned on 9.6 acres, a few 30-minute driving from Colonia.

It “was an entry level for African uranium ores generally known as pitchblende” that have been “imported to be used within the nation’s early atomic vitality program, have been assayed on the Middlesex Sampling Plant after which shipped to different websites for processing,” in keeping with the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers (USACE) New York Division.

The plant obtained uranium, thorium and beryllium ores between the Nineteen Forties and 1967, which is identical 12 months Colonia Excessive College was constructed.

Middlesex Sampling Plant to Colonia Excessive College in New Jersey.
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The plant then “decontaminated to the requirements in impact on the time,” although “missed throughout decontamination have been traces of radioactive supplies that had been carried offsite through the years by wind and rain to yards of neighboring properties,” the USACE New York Division stated on its web site. 

“Additionally, data later revealed that in 1948, some radioactively contaminated supplies had been trucked from the plant to the Middlesex Municipal Landfill (MML), one-half mile away. Within the 1980’s, the contaminated residential properties have been cleaned up, and the excavated soil was saved on the web site in a specifically constructed pile, generally known as the Neighborhood Properties (VP) pile,” the USACE New York Division’s web site states.

It’s attainable that soil from the plant had been trucked to Colonia Excessive College throughout its building in 1967, NJ Highlight reported.