Agent Orange tied to 3 cancers, 2 skin ailments Study leads US to expand list of illnesses covered by compensationDolores Kong, Globe Staff
Agent Orange was not associated with bladder cancer risk among veterans older than the median age, while those younger than themedian agehad a significantly increased risk of bladder cancer (hazard ratio, 1.07
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 ...
Agent Orange, mixture of herbicides that U.S. military forces sprayed in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971 during the Vietnam War for the dual purpose of defoliating forest areas that might conceal Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces and destroying crops that
that some diseases associated with Agent Orange and other herbicides (including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, soft tissue sarcomas and chloracne) be treated as the result of wartime service. This helped codify the VA’s response to veterans with conditions related to their exposure to Agent Orange. ...
Although these images of the victims of Napalm caused great controversy, Agent Orange was the silent, but much deadlier killer. The impact of the dioxins has affected as many as four million Vietnamese leading to cancers and terrible birth defects.Mrs. The had no idea her son was sick, ...
The study was presented here at the 2011 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, and adds to a mounting body of evidence implicating the defoliate in the development of prostate cancer. "Even when numerous other risk factors were accounted for, exposure to Agent Orange increased risk significantly," princip...
In addition, the paper will discuss incidents relating to each respective chemical. Also depicted in this paper is the type of cancers caused by each chemical and other related health problems associated with each chemical. Finally, the role of government agencies such as FDA, EPA and OSHA in ...
Vietnam claims that half a million children were born with health defects due to Agent Orange. It also states that 2,000,000 people are suffering from cancers or other illnesses related to the herbicide. Additionally, it estimates that 300,000 people died as a direct consequence of Agent Oran...
members assigned to Vietnam, no prostate cancer deaths had occurred as of the end of 1987 (expected number of deaths not stated, but probably near zero), and no incident prostate cancers were identified from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Agent Orange Registry (which collects ...