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>leukemia, lymphoma, and squamous cell skin cancer

Whoa... what is the probability that you'd get all of these without being exposed to a carcinogen?

>retired corrections officer

I wonder if the prison he was working in was built near a superfund site.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/americas-toxic-prisons-e...



They mention in the article that the skin cancer appeared to be a metastasis from his bones. I expect that all of these cancers stemmed from a single source in his bone marrow.




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