1/28/17
Jean Bryant, a Seattle mother of three boys, remembers the moment when her friend Amy Griffin first mentioned those "little black dots." Griffin turned to Bryant and said she wondered whether cancer was somehow associated with those "little black dots" on the artificial turf fields where they play, which were then replacing natural grass fields. Those dots are recycled tire crumbs. "I didn't think much of it until my son," Bryant said. Years after that conversation, just before he turned 14, Jack Bryant was diagnosed with cancer. He's a soccer goalie. Artificial turf is used in thousands of parks, sports fields, and stadiums across the country. Yet Griffin couldn't get the little black dots out of her mind. She searched online for more information about artificial turf fields and discovered that the tire rubber contains chemicals that can be harmful if you are exposed at high levels, she said. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma after he visited his doctor with a tenacious cough and was found to have swollen lymph notes in his chest.
I had no idea that cancer was such a big rise with soccer players. I wasn't aware that artificial turfs were such a problem. This can synthesize to the Industrial revolution and all the harsh and dangerous conditions that people worked in.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/health/artificial-turf-cancer-study-profile/index.html
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