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Satellite Beach & South Patrick Shores Cancer Cluster Investigation

The pattern of Hodgkin's disease first emerged in 1967, when 24-year old Larry Crockett found out he had cancer. By 1982, five of Larry's neighbors were diagnosed with the same cancer. Three victims were friends from Satellite High School and diagnosed in 1979, 1980, and 1982. Two women also died of the disease in 1967 and 1970. None of the victims had a family history of Hodgkin's disease. Richard Clapp, a former director of the Massachusetts state cancer registry who studied more than 1,000 cancer cases, said in an interview found through archived newspapers that, "The South Patrick Shores cluster is one of the most striking in U.S. medical history." Air Force documents showed recreated areas built on a sliver of spoil island used as a dump from 1962 to 1972. Waste oil, pesticide cans, and filters for PCBS - highly carcinogenic chemicals - were buried at the site. A private environmental consultant that the Air Force hired in 1988 found the groundwater beneath the dump to be contaminated with pesticide chlordane, aldrin, and DDE. The surface waters of the survival area canal were polluted with heavy metals copper, silver, and mercury. The chemicals exceeded state or federal limits. Richard S. Hopkins with the Department of Health concluded that a "viral infection" circulating in the community during the sixties and seventies caused the Hodgkin's cluster. The Hodgkin's Cases were 17 times higher than the national rate of 1.6 to 2.8 cases per 100,000 people. That doesn't even include the other cancers (bone, breast, liver, leukemia, etc.) or the high rates of ALS. In 2018, cancer cluster concerns resurfaced after a Department of Defense report showed exceedingly high levels of PFAS chemicals on Patrick Space Force Base. These chemicals were also found at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (previously known as Cape Canaveral Air Force Station) and NASA. Learn more by visiting https://www.fight4zero.org/spsdump