In a bizzare story, a man from New Jersey named Al Lupiano found out that 100 people with uncommon cancers were linked to Woodbridge Township School District, Colonia High School.
The disturbing development came to the fore after Lupiano – a cancer survivor – decided to untangle the mystery. He had developed ‘rare’ brain tumor some 20 years ago.
In 1999, when he was just 27, Lupiano was diagnosed with a “very rare” and abnormally large brain tumor for someone his age called Acoustic Neuroma (AN).
As per the reports of Fox, his wife and now-deceased sister were both diagnosed with uncommon forms of brain cancer. He revealed in a Facebook post that his wife was diagnosed with an abnormally large AN tumor and that his sister was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), which has an occurrence rate of 30 per million people.
Lupiano said that there are 100 people whose lives will never be the same again. According to Fox News, he further stated that he is hoping they will be able to come up with solutions. Many of the people who contacted Lupiano about their brain cancer cases were former teachers and staff members of Colonia High School who didn’t live in Colonia and only worked in the school.
Nevertheless, Lupiano’s claims have caused the 1,300 students at the high school to become extremely “anxious” and worried that they could be next to a brain tumor.
Although Lupiano battled his tumor in 2002, he did not think it had anything to do with his former high school until his wife and sister also developed it. When his sister, Angela DeCillis, passed away this year, he vowed to figure out if there was a connection.
“I will not rest until I have answers,” he said.
After the news came out, Woodbridge Mayor John McCormack’s office began talks with the Woodbridge Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Agency for Toxic Substance Disease Registry about opening investigations into possible radiation exposure at the high school’s campus. McCormack stated that the municipality wants both local and federal investigators involved in the case.
Lupiano has previously shared a theory, telling NJ Spotlight News that the school was located 12 miles from the Middlesex Sampling Plant, which was used to crush, dry, store, pack, and ship uranium ore for atomic bomb development.
He claims some of the contaminated soil was removed from the site after it closed in 1967 — the same year Colonia High School was built.
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