Hi everyone,
I realize this post is a little off-topic for PSU football and will be somewhat of a downer/serious thread...but I have a health question for those of you who attended PSU in the 1960s or 1970s.
For background, my father (Penn State-UP class of 1972) was just diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He never smoked and rarely drank, so he was not seriously at-risk for this type of cancer. He is now the third of his five Penn State roommates to have developed esophageal cancer. The other two that were diagnosed were also non-smokers. After the second friend's diagnosis, they all chalked it up to coincidence, but with my dad being the third diagnosis within this close group of five friends who lived together, we now have some very raised eyebrows. Unfortunately, this potentially points to what they may have been exposed to within their housing conditions as Penn State students since that is the one commonality across them.
My dad and these other men lived in Shunk Hall and then at Collegiate Arms Apartments (218 South Sparks Street). My family is interested in if anyone else who lived in those residencies around the same period also unfortunately developed a similar condition, or maybe if the posters on this site have any anecdotes with relatives who lived there. This could very well purely be coincidental...but if others may have experienced the same thing, we'd like to hear about it.
You can message me directly if you'd like.
I realize this post is a little off-topic for PSU football and will be somewhat of a downer/serious thread...but I have a health question for those of you who attended PSU in the 1960s or 1970s.
For background, my father (Penn State-UP class of 1972) was just diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He never smoked and rarely drank, so he was not seriously at-risk for this type of cancer. He is now the third of his five Penn State roommates to have developed esophageal cancer. The other two that were diagnosed were also non-smokers. After the second friend's diagnosis, they all chalked it up to coincidence, but with my dad being the third diagnosis within this close group of five friends who lived together, we now have some very raised eyebrows. Unfortunately, this potentially points to what they may have been exposed to within their housing conditions as Penn State students since that is the one commonality across them.
My dad and these other men lived in Shunk Hall and then at Collegiate Arms Apartments (218 South Sparks Street). My family is interested in if anyone else who lived in those residencies around the same period also unfortunately developed a similar condition, or maybe if the posters on this site have any anecdotes with relatives who lived there. This could very well purely be coincidental...but if others may have experienced the same thing, we'd like to hear about it.
You can message me directly if you'd like.
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