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{"7AA3D915-5056-A066-605F-8223B17DB13A":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"7AA3D915-5056-A066-605F-8223B17DB13A","title":"Sen Schumer Demands VA Incorporate LI's Data in Study on Toxins","summary":"Stony Brook, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"December 20, 2019","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/sen-schumer-demands-va-incorporate-lis-data-in-study-on-toxins","city":"Stony Brook","county":"Suffolk","lat":40.9055136,"lng":-73.1029605,"description":"On Dec 20, 2019 standing at the Long Island State Veterans Home, surrounded by vets, nurses and the Valley Stream family of Jerry Chiano, a <a href=\"https://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/vietnam-veteran-dies-valley-stream-1.15079731\">Vietnam War vet who passed away</a> from a rare cancer linked to a toxic parasite, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer revealed that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is about to launch a major study on ‘toxins.’ But what Schumer pointed out is that Long Island’s own Northport VA <a href=\"https://www.newsday.com/long-island/veterans-parasite-cancer-1.16355123\">already did a 2017 study</a> on a rare, cancer-causing parasitic toxin, liver-fluke that is—more or less—sitting on a shelf, and that cannot simply stay there without the larger VA seeing what might be of use. Schumer says there must, and should, be some use for even aspects of the Northport data as part of the VA’s newly-announced large-scale research effort on toxins and environmental exposures, and he is urging the agency to act. The Senator demanded that as part of this new study, the VA incorporate Long Island’s data, or some of the information from its participants, in hopes to speed the new effort and give local vets the answers –and the care—they deserve. Schumer made the case that the VA should not advance another big study on toxic or environmental exposures without considering the incorporation of Long Island veterans’ data on Liver-Fluke, and the rare cancer that this exposure might deliver.    "}}

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