there seems to be a link between Agent Orange and cancer of the kidney in U.S. veterans exposed to the herbicide to the Viet Nam, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana) has reviewed the records of 297 patients diagnosed between 1987 and 2009 kidney cancer. Thirteen patients, aged 39 to 63 years when they were diagnosed, said that they had been exposed to Agent Orange.
Exhibition documented reports of herbicide and pathology were available for 10 patients. Researchers examined these patients at diagnosis, tumor size, age side of injury, pathology and survival.
Nine of the ten patients had clear-cell cancers, which were generally of the worst results as papillary tumors, which appeared in a patient. One patient had clear-cell cancers and friction.
Over the average 54 months follow-up, four patients developed metastatic cancer and a patient died of cancer.
The results were presented Saturday at a special conference at the American Urological Association (AUA) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. presented research at meetings should be considered provisional because it was not subject to review by peers that usually accompanies the publication in a medical journal.
"We know that the chemicals in Agent Orange have been extremely toxic and are known to cause cancer," press conference moderator Dr. Anthony y. Smith stated in a press release AAU. "These data indicate that we may need to better determine whether exposure to chemical substances should be considered as a risk factor for renal cancer."
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