VA expired in 2015 under the sunset clause of the Agent Orange Act of 1991. Through this process, the list of 'presumptive' conditions has grown since 1991, and currently the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has listed prostate cancer, respiratory cancers, multiple myeloma, type II ...
Other epidemiological studies of prostate cancer have relied in part on self-reported exposure to Agent Orange, which has been shown not to be a valid indicator of serum TCDD levels [81]. Many of these studies also used the VA’s presumptive definition of Agent Orange exposure, which classifie...
I have recently sent a claim to the VA to address these cancers. They have asked me to prove that my cancers came from my exposure. Anyone have recent studies in this area? 30 Ralph Densmore ⚠ Can anyone verify if Agent Orange was ever stored at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico? If so...
2 Agent Orange (AO) was a term of the US Military for a mixture of herbicides, containing a dioxin by-product, that was used for purposes of defoliation and crop destruction.3 The former was aimed to destroy plant cover to enemy troops while the crop destruction programme was aimed at ...
THE AGENT ORANGE FIASCO In 1991, Congress enacted the Agent Orange Act, giving the Department of Veterans Affairs the authority to declare certain conditions “presumptive” to exposure to Agent Orange/dioxin, making these veterans who served in Vietnam eligible to receive treatment and compensation ...