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Leukemia in Vietnam vets
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers have
found a link between a type of leukemia and
Vietnam soldiers exposed to herbicides like Agent
Orange, prompting the Veterans Affairs
Department to announce it will extend benefits to
veterans with the illness.
The veterans diagnosed with chronic lympho
cytic leukemia, or CLL, would start receiving
improved benefits, such as disabil
ity compensation and priority ££
health care services, in about a
year. Secretary Anthony Principi
said Thursday.
“It’s sad that we have to pre
sume service connection, because
we know that (veterans) have can
cer that may have been caused by
their battlefield service. But it’s the
right thing to do,” Principi said.
Veterans Affairs expects to find
about 500 new cases of CLL a
year among Vietnam veterans,
said spokesman Phil Budahn.
About 2.6 million people served
in Vietnam during the war and
most are still alive.
There are 10,000 Vietnam vet- -
It's just one more
indication that service
on the battlefield
exposes men and
women to dangers
beyond bullets,
shrapnel and
missiles.
problems from Agent Orange exposure andii
taken a long time to have sufficient proof tos
isfy the VA and now we have it,” said Sen. Arl
Specter, R-Pa, Senate Veterans Affair
Committee chairman.
Waco Democratic Rep. Chet Edwards we
coined the news. His district includes Fort Hoo:
Army post from which thousands of troops hi
been deployed in the buildupfo
potential war in Iraq.
‘‘Veterans should receive lit
benefit of the doubt regarding
nesses being service related,'
Edwards said. “Their sacrifice!
for our country have earned then
that benefit.”
By connecting the defoliar;
and CLL, the Institute
Medicine altered its own previ
ous finding that not enough scv
entific evidence existed todet
mine whether the two wereassc-
ciated. The institute is partoftk
National Academy of Sciences
Previously, researchers lump;;
CLL with other forms
— Anthony Principi
Veterans Affairs Secretary
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erans receiving disability pay for other illnesses
related to exposure to Agent Orange and other her
bicides used during the war. Veterans Affairs said.
The Institute of Medicine, which re-examined
past research on cancer rates in agricultural work
ers and farm community residents, announced
Thursday that it had found the link between the
form of leukemia and Vietnam herbicides.
“It's just one more indication that service on
the battlefield exposes men and women to dangers
beyond bullets, shrapnel and missiles,” said
Principi, . who requested the review.
“Environmental hazards are as worrisome and
deadly as some of the more common forms of bat
tlefield injury.”
U.S. troops sprayed 20 million gallons of
Agent Orange and other herbicides over parts of
South Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1960s and
70s to clear dense jungle. Some veterans report
ed a variety of health problems shortly after
returning from the war.
Some forms of cancer. Type 2 diabetes and
birth defects in veterans’children already are con
sidered associated with herbicide exposures dur
ing the war. But it has been difficult to research the
problem because no one knows how much chemi
cals troops were exposed to, the Institute of
Medicine said.
“For more than two decades we’ve had many
complaints from Vietnam veterans about serious
leukemia when looking at canct
rates among Vietnam veterans. But this timet!i!
scientists examined rates of CLL separately, sail
Dr. Paul Engstrom, a member of the review coirr
mittee and a vice president with Fox Cha* 30-percent from
Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
I he scientists said although CLL is a forme
leukemia, it shares some similarities wi
Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkins lyniphomi
two diseases that have long been known to
associated w ith exposures to the types of chem
icals used in Agent Orange and other defoliani
Although health care is available to nearly
veterans. Principi’s decision means that vetei
with CLL who were in Vietnam during then;
will get disability compensation of about $2.300t
month, they won't have to pay copayments
health care to treat CLL and will have beital
access to the agencies' health services. Princi
must draft rules and publish them in the Fedeiii
Register before the benefits can take effect
Principi's decision to extend benefits pleased
veterans groups who have continued to fight fa
research on the illnesses suffered by veterans
exposed to the defoliants.
But Rick Wiedman, Vietnam Veterans
America government relations director, said tk
findings are incremental and large scale reseaidi
should be funded to study problems in veteran’
“At the rate we are going, little by little bit,'*e
are all going to be dead,” Wiedman said.
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