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Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam
The Institute of Medicine’s first review, in 1994, of the evidence on herbicides and disease.
- Dates
- 1994
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What it found
The committee found sufficient evidence of an association with herbicides and/or TCDD for three cancers: soft tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Hodgkin's disease.
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followed from
- Agent Orange Act of 1991 Primary record 2
author
- Institute of Medicine 1994 Primary record 12
influenced
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2014
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It began a series of reviews that ran through 2018.
Timeline 2 dates
- 1994 Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam
- 1994 Institute of Medicine authored Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam
Proof 2 sources
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam, Summary, Institute of Medicine (National Academy Press), 1994.
Primary record
The committee found sufficient evidence of an association with herbicides and/or TCDD for three cancers: soft tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Hodgkin's disease.
Although definitive data are lacking, the available quantitative and qualitative evidence about herbicide exposure summarized in Chapter 6 suggests that Vietnam veterans as a group had substantially lower exposure to herbicides and dioxin than the subjects in many occupational studies.
The participants in Operation Ranch Hand are an exception to this pattern, and it is likely that others among the approximately 3 million men and woman who served in Vietnam were exposed to herbicides at levels associated with health effects.
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2014, Summary, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies Press), 2016.
Primary record
whose conclusions the IOM published in 1994 in Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam
whose conclusions the IOM published in 1994
The work of later committees resulted in the publication of biennial updates
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