Study: Agent Orange Linked to Cancer Risk

Study: Agent Orange Linked to Cancer Risk

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WASHINGTON - A study has found an increased risk of prostate cancer
and melanoma among Air Force veterans of the Vietnam War who sprayed
the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, the Air Force said Thursday.

The cancer incidence was found to be 1.46 to 2.33 times higher than
among the national population.

An analysis of the study is to be published in the February edition of
the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The Air Force
released a synopsis of the article, which was written by members of an
Air Force group that has been studying the Agent Orange matter for
more than 20 years.

Betty Anne Mauger, an Air Force spokeswoman, said the Air Force did
not plan to release the study or the article before publication.

The study is to be reviewed by the National Academy of Sciences (news
- web sites), which will report its results to the Veterans Affairs
Department.

From 1962 to 1971, the Air Force sprayed an estimated 11 million
gallons of defoliants, mainly Agent Orange, over Vietnam to destroy
jungle cover for communist troops in a campaign known as Operation
Ranch...

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