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Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam Veterans (2002)

Chapter: Appendix A Workshop on the Review of Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Third Biennial Update)

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop on the Review of Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Third Biennial Update)." Institute of Medicine. 2002. Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam Veterans. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10309.
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Appendix A Workshop on the Review of Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Third Biennial Update) AML Review Session PUBLIC WORKSHOP October 18, 2001 Members Room, National Academy of Sciences Washington, D.C. Workshop Presentations and Speakers • Morbidity of Vietnam Veterans. Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) in Vietnam Veterans’ Children in Australia Keith Horsley, M.D., Medical Services Adviser, Commonwealth Depart- ment of Veterans’ Affairs, Australia Paul Jelfs, Ph.D., Head, Population Health Unit, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Epidemiological consultant for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs • Paternal Military Service and Risk of Childhood Acute Leukemia Xiao Ou Shu, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Center for Health Service Research, Nashville, Tennessee • Pesticides and Childhood Acute Leukemia: Results from a German Case-Control Study Joachim Schüz, Ph.D., Institute for Medical Biometrics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany 26

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In 2001, in response to a request by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) called together a committee to conduct a review of the scientific evidence regarding the association between exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in herbicides used in Vietnam and acute myelogenous leukemia in the offspring of Vietnam veterans. Based on the scientific evidence reviewed in this report, the committee finds there is inadequate or insufficient evidence to determine if an association exists between exposure to the herbicides used in Vietnam or their contaminants and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) in the children of Vietnam veterans. This is a change in classification from the recent Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000 report, which found limited/suggestive evidence for such an association.

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