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NBC news poses the question whether field turf causes cancer
Posted on 10/11/14 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 10/11/14 at 4:46 pm
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I guess football players are immune to the effects of these chemicals, and only soccer goalies, who stand around most of the game, get sick?
Is it just me or is it odd that this article exists?
I guess football players are immune to the effects of these chemicals, and only soccer goalies, who stand around most of the game, get sick?
Is it just me or is it odd that this article exists?
Posted on 10/11/14 at 4:46 pm to baybeefeetz
Everything else causes cancer. Why not field turf?
Posted on 10/11/14 at 4:49 pm to baybeefeetz
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NBC news
There's your problem, right there. There are very few journalists anymore.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 5:06 pm to baybeefeetz
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ater, the young woman with the chemo needle in her arm would say, “I just have a feeling it has something to do with those black dots.”
Artificial turf fields are now everywhere in the United States, from high schools to multi-million-dollar athletic complexes. As any parent or player who has been on them can testify, the tiny black rubber crumbs of which the fields are made -- chunks of old tires -- get everywhere. In players’ uniforms, in their hair, in their cleats.
But for goalkeepers, whose bodies are in constant contact with the turf, it can be far worse. In practices and games, they make hundreds of dives, and each plunge sends a black cloud of tire pellets into the air. The granules get into their cuts and scrapes, and into their mouths. Griffin wondered if those crumbs – which have been known to contain carcinogens and chemicals – were making players sick.
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Since then, Griffin has compiled a list of 38 American soccer players -- 34 of them goalies – who have been diagnosed with cancer. At least a dozen played in Washington, but the geographic spread is nationwide. Blood cancers like lymphoma and leukemia dominate the list.
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]No research has linked cancer to artificial turf. Griffin collected names through personal experience with sick players, and acknowledges that her list is not a scientific data set[/b].
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