Skin Cancers Present in About Half of Vets Exposed to Agent Orange During the Vietnam War, Agent Orange was widely used as herbicide and jungle defoliant. It has been linked to a wide range of cancers and other diseases, caused by the highly toxic dioxin contaminant TCDD. "TCDD is among t...
Agent Orange tied to 3 cancers, 2 skin ailments Study leads US to expand list of illnesses covered by compensationDolores Kong, Globe Staff
Some Vietnamese who came into direct contact with Agent Orange quickly developed skin irritations that turned into lesions and tumors. Others attribute their cancers and multiple miscarriages to living in areas sprayed with the herbicide [source:Glaberson].The massive number of sick Vietnam veterans...
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
Questions regarding Agent Orange arose in the United States after an increasing number of returning Vietnam veterans and their families began to report a range of afflictions, including rashes and other skin irritations, miscarriages, psychological symptoms, type 2 diabetes, birth defects in children ...
The researchers found that exposure to Agent Orange was associated with a small, but significant, increased risk of bladder cancer (hazard ratio, 1.04). In stratified analyses, Agent Orange was not associated with bladder cancer risk among veterans older than the median age, while those younger ...
I have Type II diabetes and over the last couple years I have experienced several skin cancers and unknown skin tumors. 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...
Identification of humancarcinogen(Agent Orange) The first chemical to be discussed is Agent Orange; Agent Orange has been identified as a human carcinogen; this chemical was introduced during the Vietnam war as a defoliant for the thick Vietnamese jungle. Although Agent Orange contained a variety...
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 ...
Agent Orange. Again, the biotech firm had supplied the US military with the chemical during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) has written a letter to a US court asking that it restart a class-action lawsuit by Agent Orange victims against A...