[ExcursionGuy84]

OUCH! Cancerous cells growing within the grey matter has certainly got to smart.

[Former Military Chick]

PING

[DTogo]

...exposure to chemical warfare agents...

WMD? I thought it was all a lie!

[Question Liberal Authority]

If you have munitions going through your brain, cancer is the least of your problems.

[armymarinemom]

I have wondered for years about how Sarin traveled in clothing of at least one of those returning home that had been downwind from the dump. Most of the data that I have read states that it can only be carried for about 30 minutes but a spouse of a Gulf War vet suffered injuries from doing her husbands laundry. Does anyone know if putting clothing in plastic after exposure prolongs the time that the material is dangerous?

[lilylangtree]

Wish there was a cure for cancer period. I think about one of the Star Trek movies where Chekhov needs to be saved from having brain surgery. In the hospital on the way to rescue Chekhov, Bones McCoy passes a mature woman on a stretcher who is moaning in pain and waiting for kidney surgery. Bones stops and gives her a pill. Later as Kirk and Bones are making the getaway with Chekhov in tow, they pass the same little woman who is sitting up in a wheelchair with a smile on her face and puzzlement on the surrounding doctors faces. She's telling everyone that passes that she's healed and she doesn't need a new kidney. After all these decades, why can't there be an overall cure for this horrible dreaded disease?

[tfecw]

"Gulf War veterans exposed to chemical munitions at Khamisiyah, Iraq are nearly twice as likely as their unexposed peers from the same war to die from brain cancer, according to a report in the American Journal of Public Health. "

So...what are the odds of someone getting brain cancer?

[GOP_1900AD]

So, if they were exposed to chemical munitions, and, since chemical munitions are WMDs, the that means .... THERE *ARE/WERE* WMDs IN IRAQ!

[ConservativeMind]

I am not sure why an entire class of munitions could cause this end result.

Additionally, I don't understand how they were exposed and didn't die unless they were simply handlers and trace amounts got out.

I don't know if the sample was statistically significant if exposure cases are apparently so few. If very few were exposed, the brain cancer association is an anomaly until we can find a statistically significant sample.

Regardless, I am sorrowful they have experienced such consequences.