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Soccer coach claims cancer link with Field Turf
Posted on 2/17/16 at 3:15 am
Posted on 2/17/16 at 3:15 am
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Women’s soccer coach Amy Griffin started asking questions after two goalies she coached developed cancer according to an NBC News report. NBC News first reported on the possible connection between crumb rubber and cancer in October of 2014.
A conversation with Austen Everett, a star goalkeeper for the University of Miami who died from cancer at the age of 22, also pointed Griffin in the direction of the artificial turf.
Everett said, “I just have a feeling it has something to do with those black dots.”
Everett passed away in 2012 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and chronicled her fight with cancer.
Griffin started a list of goalies she knew with cancer. That list has risen to 75 players.
On Friday, three U.S. agencies including the Centres for Disease Control, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a plan to investigate crumb rubber. [/quote]
Women’s soccer coach Amy Griffin started asking questions after two goalies she coached developed cancer according to an NBC News report. NBC News first reported on the possible connection between crumb rubber and cancer in October of 2014.
A conversation with Austen Everett, a star goalkeeper for the University of Miami who died from cancer at the age of 22, also pointed Griffin in the direction of the artificial turf.
Everett said, “I just have a feeling it has something to do with those black dots.”
Everett passed away in 2012 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and chronicled her fight with cancer.
Griffin started a list of goalies she knew with cancer. That list has risen to 75 players.
On Friday, three U.S. agencies including the Centres for Disease Control, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a plan to investigate crumb rubber. [/quote]
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Posted on 2/17/16 at 3:59 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 2/17/16 at 6:16 am to Jim Rockford
Funny, she jumps right to the field. Maybe it's the soccer that causes cancer. Dolt.
Probably getting a lawsuit together.
Probably getting a lawsuit together.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 6:23 am to Jim Rockford
Do those 75 players have the same type of cancer?
Posted on 2/17/16 at 6:24 am to WeeWee
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Do those 75 players have the same type of cancer?
Cancer is cancer, it's all the same, duh.
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Griffin started a list of goalies she knew with cancer. That list has risen to 75 players.
If I started a list of people from any occupation who developed cancer, I'm sure it would exceed 75.
This post was edited on 2/17/16 at 6:28 am
Posted on 2/17/16 at 6:55 am to Jim Rockford
I thought ESPN's OTL did a piece on this a while back? It was always goalies representing a high portion of victims.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 7:01 am to emoney
Wouldn't the workers in the manufacturing plants be dropping left and right?
Posted on 2/17/16 at 7:03 am to WG_Dawg
Must be something about them diving and it getting into their system, but you wonder why other soccer players, male goalies, or football players aren't seeing these problems.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 7:03 am to Jim Rockford
Someday, people will realize that most all manufactured materials cause cancer to some degree.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 7:09 am to Jim Rockford
Other athletes like football players are constantly getting tackled on field turf, and they aren't getting cancer, so it can't be the rubber pellets.
Maybe it's those big goalie gloves?
Maybe it's those big goalie gloves?
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:33 am to WG_Dawg
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Wouldn't the workers in the manufacturing plants be dropping left and right?
Watching the show the guy spreading the rubber on the field was wearing a breathing ventilation mask. I'm sure they take similar precautions in the plant.
It's like the people who say Roundup isn't causing anything but when looking at the plant people are dressed like a biohazard unit.
Who knows if a direct link, everyone is different and some are going to be more susceptible to foreign objects with known carcinogens being inhaled etc.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:48 am to WG_Dawg
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Wouldn't the workers in the manufacturing plants be dropping left and right?
It's probably children that have been laid off by Apple doing the work there. But I think they are given Haz Mat suits to protect them from the noxious carcinogens.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:01 am to Jim Rockford
This type of field turf hasn't been around long enough to come to any conclusions yet. No way you can really test it. Are you going to tell people to swallow that black rubber. Recently there has been some people over here complaining about it as well and how it may cause cancer.
This post was edited on 2/17/16 at 9:03 am
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:05 am to Jim Rockford
Probably HPV from all the carpet munching.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:09 am to BuckeyeFan87
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Someday, people will realize that most all manufactured materials cause cancer to some degree.
Makes me cringe a little seeing my children with 15 pounds of Chinese made Mardi Gras beads around their necks.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:26 am to BuckeyeFan87
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Someday, people will realize that most all materials cause cancer to some degree.
FTFY
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:37 am to Jim Rockford
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Wouldn't the workers in the manufacturing plants be dropping left and right?
They aren't getting it inside of cuts and their eyes, presumably.
How many youth football players play on this type of field?
Football players are generally well covered up (compared to soccer players).
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:58 am to CAT
That's not true at all. I don't know if round up causes cancer or not, but I have been in monsanto multiple times and they are not dressed like that. You literally didn't tell the truth for the hell of it. Before my current job I was there multiple times a week and walking the plant and working in the plant no one ever had to wear anything like a bio hazard suit. Actually the only unit in the plant that's bad is a unit monsanto doesn't even own, they just run it. Its a chlorine unit. Does is cause cancer? No clue....just wanted to call you out on your flat out lying post.
This post was edited on 2/17/16 at 10:08 am
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:07 am to Jim Rockford
Causation, correlation, blah, blah, blah~
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:14 am to Jim Rockford
The government created soccer cancer..
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