Veterans and Agent Orange:

Update 2000

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Publication Year:2001

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Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Third Biennial Update), Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000 examines the state of the scientific evidence regarding associations between diseases and exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in herbicides used in Vietnam. It is the fourth in a series of comprehensive reviews ...
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Front Matter	i-xviii
1 Executive Summary	1-14	(skim)
2 Veterans and Agent Orange: Previous IOM Reports	15-21	(skim)
3 Toxicology	22-102	(skim)
4 Methodological Considerations in Evaluating the Evidence	103-109	(skim)
5 Exposure Assessment	110-131	(skim)
6 Epidemiologic Studies	132-247	(skim)
7 Cancer	248-398	(skim)
8 Reproductive Effects	399-439	(skim)
9 Neurobehavioral Disorders	440-462	(skim)
10 Other Health Effects	463-522	(skim)
Appendix A: Summary of Workshop	523-523	(skim)
Appendix B: ICD-9 Codes for Cancer Outcomes	524-526	(skim)
Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies	527-532	(skim)
Index	533-604	(skim)

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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000 examines the state of the scientific evidence regarding associations between diseases and exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in herbicides used in Vietnam. It is the fourth in a series of comprehensive reviews of epidemiologic and toxicologic studies of the agents used as defoliants during the Vietnam War. Over forty health outcomes in veterans and their children are addressed.

Among the report's conclusions is that there is sufficient evidence of a link between exposure and the development of soft-tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and chloracne in veterans. Additionally, it found that scientific studies offer "limited or suggestive" evidence of an association with other diseases in veterans including Type 2 diabetes, respiratory cancers, prostate cancer, multiple myeloma and some forms of transient peripheral neuropathy as well as the congenital birth defect spina bifida in veterans' children.

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