Vietnam vet says study vindication
Otago Daily Times Australia
By John Gibb
Tue, 3 Sep 2013
After hearing official denials for decades, Vietnam war veteran Ted Gordon feels vindicated by University of Otago research showing New Zealand veterans of that war are twice as likely to develop chronic lymphatic leukemia.
''It shows we were right,'' he said yesterday.
The study, whose lead author is Associate Prof David McBride, of the university's preventive and social medicine department, also found a doubling of the risk of mortality from cancers of the head and neck, as well as an increase in oral cancers of the pharynx and larynx, among Vietnam veterans compared with the general population.
This is the first comprehensive study to produce ''hard data'' showing adverse health effects on New Zealand veterans from their service in Vietnam, researchers say. And the study will shortly appear in the international journal BMJ Open.
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