Environmental scientists are trying to determine why nearly 100 alumni or employees at Colonia High School in Woodbridge, New Jersey, have developed rare brain tumors.
An environmental engineering firm, T+M Associates, is analyzing a connection between the school and brain cancer. This comes after many in the Woodbridge Township have concerns.
In the latter part of the 90’s, Colonia alum Al Lupiano, was discovered to have a brain tumor. He was 27. In 2021, his wife and sister, who also graduated from the same high school, found out they had brain cancer.
“I had told my sister from the very beginning that there was too much of a coincidence that me, my wife, and her all have the same tumor,” Lupiano said.
After his sister passed away in February, Lupiano created a Facebook group to determine if anyone else that attended the school was suffering from tumors. He discovered 94.
He has now teamed up with local officials to determine the cause.
“What I found alarming is there’s truly only one environmental link to primary brain tumors. That is ionizing radiation. It’s not contaminated water. It’s not air…not something in soil…,” Lupiano added.
The school remains open.
