New Jersey Mystery Cancer Cases

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Shocking. The Manhattan gift that keeps on giving.

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

A single New Jersey man has uncovered a medical mystery apparently linking 100 people diagnosed with rare cancers or tumors to a Woodbridge high school.

In 1999, when he was just 27, Al Lupiano was diagnosed with a "very rare" and abnormally large brain tumor for someone his age called Acoustic Neuroma (AN). Last summer, Lupiano's wife and now-deceased sister were diagnosed with rare brain tumors on the same day. His wife was similarly diagnosed with an abnormally large AN tumor, and his sister was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), which has an incident rate of 30 out of every 1 million people, Lupiano explained in a Facebook post that he has been updating since March 7.
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It "was an entry point for African uranium ores known as pitchblende" that were "imported for use in the nation’s early atomic energy program, were assayed at the Middlesex Sampling Plant and then shipped to other sites for processing," according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New York Division.

The plant received uranium, thorium and beryllium ores between the 1940s and 1967, which is the same year Colonia High School was built.

"Also, records later revealed that in 1948, some radioactively contaminated materials had been trucked from the plant to the Middlesex Municipal Landfill (MML), one-half mile away. In the 1980's, the contaminated residential properties were cleaned up, and the excavated soil was stored at the site in a specially constructed pile, known as the Vicinity Properties (VP) pile," the USACE New York Division's website states.

Interestingly enough, Colonia is an upper-middle-class town where many white people from Newark fled to during the 1960s and 1970s so their kids could go to "good" (in New Jersey parlance "all white") schools. So it's doubly ironic.

And the "Colonia" term came to denote the highest status of a Roman city.