The following meeting announcement was recently posted to the Worked to Death website, a resource for information about the investigation/legal efforts and scientific study surrounding an outrageously high incidence of brain cancer (particularly glioblastoma multiforme) across Connecticut's Pratt and Whitney Aircraft plants where trichloroethylene is one of the main toxins of concern.

WORKED TO DEATH ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE

BRAIN TUMOR CLUSTER STUDY


WHEN: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006, 7:00 PM TO 10:00 PM

WHERE: THE CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL, 100 BERLIN ROAD,

CROMWELL CT (860-635-2000)

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC PLEASE ATTEND

By way of background, the following introduction can be found on the recently updated Worked to Death website:

Hi, let us introduce ourselves, we are Carol Shea and Kate Greco, wives of John Shea and John Greco. Our husbands were friends and co-workers for over 30 years at Prattt and Whitney Aircraft. They both lost their lives within one month of each other to a VERY RARE form of brain cancer, GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME.

The Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) primary brain tumor is one of the most malignant and difficult brain tumors to treat. It is also a very rare type of tumor. According to the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States, www.cbtrus.org, GBM's strike an average of 2.96 people per 100,000 - less than .003 percent - every year. The State Health Department, in consultation with federal health and safety experts, is investigating the possibility of a brain tumor cluster at Pratt & Whitney's Connecticut plants. We have, with the help of local newspapers and TV stations running our story, compiled a list of over 87 confirmed Glioblastoma cases, we have an additional 41 confirmed cases with other forms of brain tumors at Pratt & Whitney. THIS IS WELL BEYOND THE PERCENTAGES!!!!!!!

We hope to inform you and engage your support for our efforts to help clean up this toxicity which we feel caused our husbands and many other deaths. We hope you will read on to see what our efforts have uncovered. We are involved in the largest study of its type in history which is being undertaken by the Universities of Pittsburgh and Chicago, under the direction of Dr. Gary Marsh, Dr. Frank S. Lieberman, both of the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. N.A. Esmen of the University of Illinois at Chicago with the cooperation of the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health through William Gerrish its Director of Public Health Communications.

For more information and background on the Pratt and Whitney situation, please also see this series of articles by the New Haven Advocate, including the initial piece from which the families' website takes it's name: Worked to Death: Pratt and Whitney Leaves Behind a Trail of Cancer