Study links prostate cancer, Agent Orange

Study links prostate cancer, Agent Orange

By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Aug 5, 2008 14:25:59 EDT

Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange are nearly twice as likely to have prostate cancer — especially in its most aggressive form — when compared to veterans who were not hit with the herbicide, according to new research from the University of California, Davis, Cancer Center.

The new findings stem from a study of 13,000 Vietnam veterans enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Northern California Health Care System. The exposed veterans also were an average of 2½ years younger than men typically diagnosed with the disease, and were almost four times more likely to have cancer that had spread to other parts of their bodies.
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