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Project Title:
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Review of the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides - Tenth Biennial Update |
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Major Uni:
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Institute of Medicine
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| Sub Unit: |
Board on the Health of Select Populations
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| RSO: |
Paxton, Mary
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| Subject/Focus Area: | Health and Medicine |
| Project Scope | ||
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An ad hoc committee will undertake an
updated review and evaluation of the available scientific evidence
regarding the statistical association between exposure to dioxin and
other chemicals in the herbicides used in Vietnam and various adverse
health outcomes. This updated review would build upon the information
developed in previous IOM studies and included in the following
reports: Veterans and Agent Orange (1994), Veterans and Agent Orange:
Update 1996, Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1998, Veterans and Agent
Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Type 2 Diabetes, Veterans and
Agent Orange: Update 2000, Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin
Exposure and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam
Veterans, Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002, Veterans and Agent
Orange: Length of Presumptive Period for Association Between Exposure
and Respiratory Cancer, Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004, Veterans
and Agent Orange: Update 2006, Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2008,
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2010, and Veterans and Agent Orange:
Update 2012, but would focus on scientific studies and other information
developed since the release of these reports. Additionally, the US
Department of Veterans Affairs has also asked the Update 2014 committee
to determine what the probability would be (low or high) for long-term
adverse health effects from Agent Orange in C-123 post-Vietnam
crewmembers. The project is sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs The approximate start date for the project is 8/01/2014 A report will be issued at the end of the project in approximately 24 months | ||
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