Rare brain tumor found in 115 people who attended or worked at a New Jersey high school: Report

An alumnus of Colonia Excessive College in Woodbridege, N.J. is investigating his former highschool, claiming he has counted 115 individuals who attended or labored there to have had a uncommon mind tumor, in accordance with CBS Information.

Al Lupiano, an environmental scientist and a 1989 graduate of the N.J. highschool started investigating Colonia Excessive College in Woodbridge when he realized many others with ties to the varsity suffered the uncommon mind tumors, similar to he did, 20 years in the past. Immediately, he nonetheless suffers lingering results.

“I began doing a little analysis and the three turned 5, the 5 turned seven, the seven turned 15,” he advised CBS Information York of the listing, which now totals 115 individuals who had both malignant or benign tumors.

Final 12 months, his sister, additionally an alumna of Colonia Excessive, was identified with a main mind tumor, a stage 4 glioblastoma, he advised CBS New York. “Two hours later, we obtained info that my spouse additionally had a main mind tumor,” Lupiano mentioned. His spouse graduated in 1991.

On March 29, 2022, Lupiano wrote an article in an area publication, asking for assist to determine individuals who developed the mind tumors, to gather information to plan additional steps for solutions to a most likely trigger.

“A number of weeks in the past, we very immediately and tragically misplaced my 44-year-old sister Angela (CHS-95) to a really uncommon and extremely aggressive malignant glioma mind tumor (Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)) found on her left aspect,” he wrote within the publication. “The incident fee for GBM is roughly 30 out of 1,000,000 folks.

“The identical day my sister was identified (August 2021), I obtained the devastating information my spouse Michele (nee Zawada) additionally has a really massive (3.0 cm), very uncommon mind tumor referred to as an Acoustic Neuroma (aka Vestibular Schwannoma) on her left aspect.

“Whereas typically solely life threatening if left untreated, radiation and surgical elimination usually leaves people with quite a few debilitations together with continual complications, steadiness points, fatigue, deafness, slurred speech, incapacity to blink, and facial paralysis (to call only some), and that assumes it doesn’t start to regrow sooner or later. These tumors are much more uncommon occurring in 10 out of 1,000,000 people.”

In an announcement to CBS Information, Lupiano mentioned he’s “anxiously awaiting the outcomes of the two-week-long radiological survey which concluded this weekend” and he anticipates he’ll obtain the leads to weeks. “Nonetheless, I nonetheless assume we have to expedite the subsequent section of testing together with water, soil, and air, to find out if a couple of contaminant is current,” he mentioned.

“Each dad and mom of youngsters at school and present lecturers and workers deserve solutions. Asking them to be affected person for a number of extra weeks is unacceptable. Instant motion from our State and Federal companies is warranted,” Lupiano mentioned.