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Diseases Associated with Agent Orange Exposure
Submitted by joessoft on Fri, 11/26/2004 - 17:50. Facts About Agent Orange
The government dragged its heels on investigating the health effects from
Agent Orange exposure, so Congress shifted the responsibility away from
federal agencies and to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of
Medicine (IOM). IOM formed an expert, independent panel in 1992, and it
has produced three reports since then. The reports review all the
available scientific literature and judge which diseases may be associated
with Agent Orange exposure. The Department of Veterans Affairs can then
pay disability compensation to any Vietnam veteran who develops that
disease. The list of diseases follows.
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Chloracne
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Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
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Multiple myeloma
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Respiratory cancers
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Lung
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Trachea
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Larynx
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Bronchus
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Prostate Cancer
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Soft Tissue Sarcoma
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Hodkins disease
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Porphyria cutanea tarda
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Peripheral neuropathy
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Spina Bifida in the children of Vietnam veterans
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Type 2 Diabetes
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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
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