by:Ken Kolker
PHOTO: Sandy Wynn-Stelt talks with News 8. (July 2020)
BELMONT, Mich. (WOOD) — Target 8 has learned that the Belmont woman who became the face of the nationwide fight against PFAS has been diagnosed with a cancer tied to the chemical.
Returning home Tuesday after doctors last week removed her cancerous thyroid and lymph nodes where cancer had spread, Sandy Wynn-Stelt said she will eventually start radiation.
Wynn-Stelt said Wednesday, “Once I heard it, it was just kind of game on, let’s fix it, what are we going to do?”
She has lived more than 30 years across from the old House Street dump, where Wolverine Worldwide dumped PFAS-tainted sludge for years.
Past medical tests found 5 million parts per trillion of PFAS in her blood— the highest ever recorded in a human.
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