Twin Cities
By Ruben Rosario
POSTED: 02/01/2014
Clark is among 2,282 Minnesotans and 230,918 other former Camp Lejeune residents across the nation, Puerto Rico and other regions notified so far of the water contamination by the military through letters or other communications.
Theresa Clark has Stage 4 breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body.
Although she hasn't been given a definite prognosis, the 54-year-old Marine veteran from Elko was informed recently that there is no treatment that will reverse her condition. She now has a four-hour chemotherapy session every third week in the hope that the cancer will be kept at bay in some manner.
"I am basically dying," she told me last week.
Clark, a married mother of two who is also a grandmother, strongly believes her cancer is a direct result of exposure to toxins during the 1980s when she was stationed at USMC Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
"There is no doubt in my mind," she said. "I have no family history of it." She is hardly alone in her belief.
Up to 1 million Marine veterans, family members and others living or working at the base between 1957 and 1987 drank, showered and cooked with water contaminated by toxins linked to a variety of cancers and birth defects.
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