65 cases of rare brain tumors linked to Colonia High School, Woodbridge Township NJ

[womanofthehills]

I grew up in Woodbridge and my cousins in Colonia so I found this of particular

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/former-woodbridge-n-j-resident-confirms-65-people-who-either-attended-or-worked-at-colonia-high-school-have-had-rare-brain-tumors/

[phylny]

1. I got "page not found."

[womanofthehills]

2. MSNBC link not working so I switched to CBS link

[elleng]

5. Sixty five people with very rare brain tumours all linked to same school.

Al Lupiano has found that 65 people who were at Colonia High School, in New Jersey, have all suffered from an extremely rare brain tumour leading to an investigation.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/sixty-five-people-very-rare-26616962

[USALiberal]

3. Most posters add two or three paragraphs....

WOODBRIDGE, N.J. -- A former resident of Woodbridge Township has called for environmental action after he discovered several people who went to a local school all had rare brain tumors.

CBS2's Meg Baker spoke to him and others on Wednesday.

"I started doing some research and the three became five, the five became seven, the seven became 15," Al Lupiano said.


Lupiano, an environmental scientist, said he has confirmed 65 cases of people with rare brain tumors, adding the common denominator is they were all Colonia High School graduates or had worked there. Lupiano was diagnosed 20 years ago and said he still suffers lingering issues. He started researching a connection when other family members were diagnosed with the same extremely rare tumor on the left side of the brain.

More at OP link!

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Wow. The only common cause is ... ionizing radiation ?? That's going to be hard to pin down.

I guess the first thing to test for is radon.

[StarryNite]

6. Radon is a silent killer.

We had our house tested for it in 2019. The level was high so we had it mitigated. Should have done it years before though.

[LisaL]

7. Radon is usually associated with lung cancer.

For all these people to get brain tumors, but not lung cancers, it's likely not radon.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. An RF detector for microwaves, plus check to see if a room is acting like a Faraday Cage.

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A Faraday Cage, while able to block microwaves from entering it, will behave like a microwave oven if the source is within. See if there is a commonality to where these people went to narrow down a building specific issue. Is there/was there a HAM or radio club in the school?

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[Disaffected]

15. Microwaves and radio waves are not ionizing radiation and

therefore are not generally thought to cause cancer.

There has been a lot of speculation about cell phone radiation for example and its relation to brain cancer but AFAIK no credible causal link has been found.

Why would/could a high school room act like a Faraday Cage anyhow?

[TheBlackAdder]

16. Didn't say it was but 1W 900mhz can slowly destroy tissue if antenna or a source to it is touched.

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I know this first hand keying up a radio with a liner amplifier. Just one second of contact caused permanent sensation loss in the fingertip. Folks at work were driving with their cellphones in their laps, back when the phones had antennas on them and this caused a couple people to have loss of sensation in their groin areas (not going into specifics but you get my drift). While antennas are omnibearing, when it makes contact with the skin or object almost all of the energy is directed to that area. That's why there was questions of cellphone use and cancers. Many of the older phones has their antennas that could be touched in some manner. Quite a few were higher wattage than advertised to ensure a working signal, before things were perfected.

It doesn't have to be a full Faraday, but could have been a mesh to form concrete or in a school radio room or photo lab, just enough to keep the radio waves from not being omnibearing and repeat a few times. It could be a corridor, a shield for dirty generator, who knows what different people did back then. Who knows, it might be a pile of improperly shielded or degraded wires.

Now sources for gamma is a little harder. You get fried flying daytime in a commercial jet by natural solar rays. Aircrafts do not shield from that and up at 30,000 or more provides little atmospheric filtering. I know the Woodbridge area, so nothing seems odd about that area. It's more site specific. I know in the old days the science departments would get samples of various ores, some that would trip a Geiger counter. I doubt there was ever medical equipment there, but you never know. There might be something in the concrete or cement that is doing it. There were a lot of fugazi concrete and block suppliers that would throw the kitchen sink of toxic materials into that stuff as a way to get rid of it. It seems site specific, unless those people live next to an unpublished dump, natural formation or a military waste(doubt).

The township's HazMat Response Team should can test for that stuff.

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[Disaffected]

18. OK but I still don't see the point in

checking the school for EMF radiation and Faraday cages (because of a cancer cluster).

[TheBlackAdder]

19. Some supporting, some not supporting findings.

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https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/electromagnetic-fields-fact-sheet

In other words, we just don't know and no stone should be left unturned.

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[BigmanPigman]

8. I remember reading about a study when I was a teacher.

They were trying to see if an increased number or odd illnesses was linked to people living close to telephone lines and other wires attached to poles.

[womanofthehills]

9. Brain tumors and petroleum refining workers

(Maybe some sludge from the petroleum industry)

A case-referent study was conducted on the risk of brain tumors among workers exposed to organic chemicals in petroleum refining and chemical manufacturing. Brain tumor cases in northern New Jersey, Philadelphia, and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana were identified from death certificates of a recent three-year period.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2829348/

[womanofthehills]

12. I think the EMF research is linked to leukemia

And very high EMF exposure. The WHO has been studying this.

[NutmegYankee]

10. This cancer is also common among those who worked Navy Aviation during the Vietnam Era.

I lost my father to this cancer when I was just 21.

[Zane_G]

11. class of 76

I'm class of '76 and I'm still cookin. Seriously this is an interesting developing story. So far none of my former classmates have been amongst the 65.

[Renew Deal]

14. The human tragedy is paramount, but this is one way that property values

Go to close to $0.

[Demovictory9]

17. no kidding. who would buy a house around that school?