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Is Artificial Turf Giving Children Cancer?

Seattle soccer coach Amy Griffin was puzzled by the sudden rise in young girls who played soccer coming down with cancer, usually blood cancers like lymphoma and leukemia. “I’ve coached for 26, 27 years,” claimed Amy. “My first 15 years, I never heard anything about this. All of a sudden it seems to be a stream of kids.”

These cancer victims were all in their teens when stricken. Whatever other possible various carcinogenic intrusions and poor nutritional diets had to do with their early onset cancers, there was one constant: artificial turf playing fields.

After discovering a few soccer-playing cancer victims in Seattle, Amy scoured the country and discovered 38 cases of young teens who were soccer players, 34 of them goalies, that had been stricken with cancer. Her list has been growing, with parents emailing her about their soccer-cancer kids. But why more goalies than others?

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