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Nuclear missile workers are contracting cancer. They blame the bases
- U.S. service members who worked at nuclear missile silos are developing similar cancers, raising concerns about workplace safety.
- Sebeck reported exposure to hazardous materials, including polychlorinated biphenyls, linked to their illness.
- Sebeck is urging Congress to add missileers affected by base contamination to the PACT Act for health care support.
- There is a significant cancer cluster reported in Montana, and likely in Wyoming as well.
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Nuclear missile workers are contracting cancer. They blame the bases
By Patricia Kime, KFF Health News At a memorial service in 2022, veteran Air Force Capt. Monte Watts bumped into a fellow former Minuteman III nuclear missile operator, who told him that she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Watts knew other missileers with similar cancers. But the connection really hit home later that same January day, when the results of a blood test revealed that Watts himself had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a type of non-Hodgkin l…
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