Sue Kamuda sued the medical device sterilization company, claiming emissions from the plant near her home caused her cancer.
. She fought back tears while on the stand, talking about being diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer more than two decades after moving to her home in Willowbrook.
But she didn't know that same year, Sterigenics, moved in as well, just a third of a mile from her home. Kamuda was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007. She said it was a shock to her, because she has no family history of breast cancer, and a DNA test showed she didn't have the breast cancer causing gene.
Kamuda said it was a neighbor who alerted her to the findings and invited her to a community meeting. She said she had no idea that Sterigenics had been emitting the toxic gas all of those years, and she would have moved her family if she had known.
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