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Journal Article
Cancer in US Air Force Veterans of the Vietnam War
2004
Overview
Cancer incidence and mortality were summarized in Air Force veterans of the Vietnam War. The index subjects were Operation Ranch Hand veterans who sprayed 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (dioxin)-contaminated herbicides in Vietnam. Comparisons served in Southeast Asia during the same period but did not spray herbicides. We assessed cancer incidence and mortality using national rates and contrasted cancer risk in each of three Ranch Hand dioxin exposure categories relative to comparisons. The incidence of melanoma and prostate cancer was increased among white Ranch Hand veterans relative to national rates. Among veterans who spent at most 2 years in Southeast Asia, the risk of cancer at any site, of prostate cancer and of melanoma was increased in the highest dioxin exposure category. These results appear consistent with an association between cancer and dioxin exposure.
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
Subject
/ Aged
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Cancer
/ Defoliants, Chemical - adverse effects
/ Dioxins
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Melanoma
/ Occupational Exposure - adverse effects
/ Prostatic Neoplasms - epidemiology
/ Risk
/ Tumors
/ United States - epidemiology
/ Veterans
/ Veterans - statistics & numerical data
/ Vietnam
/ War
/ Warfare
