Alleged NASA Cancer Problem May Have Existed For Years

[OhioChick]

Source: Newsnet5

POSTED: 4:57 pm EDT April 15, 2008
UPDATED: 7:09 pm EDT April 15, 2008

CLEVELAND -- New questions are surfacing about cancer cases at NASA Glenn Research Center and how long the problem may have existed.

NewsChannel5's Autumn Ziemba spoke with NASA retirees and spouses of employees who died of cancer decades ago after working in the development engineering building.

It's the same building where at least 40 people have been diagnosed with cancer, but now these people are wondering if there was a problem, how long did it exist?

Judy Szabo's husband, Steve, was diagnosed with multiple myloma in 1991 at age 49. He died a year later.

Steve, who was NASA's director of engineering, worked at the same building where union officials say close to 40 workers have been diagnosed with cancer.

Virginia Cantwell, president of IFPTE Local 28, claims there's a history in the building that's being ignored and she wants to see test results.

"The retirees are telling me -- and these are even some management officials -- that there were concerns way back to the 80s and there were never any answers provided," Cantwell said.

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Nice. :sarcasm:

[aquart]

1. Someone needs to autopsy that building.

And then bury it.

[OhioChick]

2. Yep. n/t

[jaksavage]

3. No sacrifice is too great

for the protection of the Homeland.
Just the cost of freedom...
I mean War.

We are all being poisoned by the industrial machine.

[sudopod]

5. Eh...

Glenn mainly deals with civilian space program stuff, especially propulsion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Research_Center

I do agree, though, that we could stand to cut a few billion from the war machine. ;)

[jaksavage]

6. I consider space travel

a subsidy industry for the military industrial complex.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. We lost a fellow patron of the neighborhood bar to cancer last year

who had worked on the Manhattan Project. Very cool lady. :(