Posted on 09/02/2007 9:09:00 AM PDT by Right Winged American
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 -- Stonewalling by the Veterans Administration is putting U.S. cancer surveillance and research in jeopardy, according to many of the researchers involved in those fields.
After decades of sharing data freely and allowing researchers to get in touch with its patients, the agency has been blocking such activity for the past several years, according to Dennis Deapen, Dr.PH., of the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program and the University of Southern California.
The result, Dr. Deapen said, is that California state data on cancer incidence rates are being skewed. And that, he said, is likely to have serious effects on national data.
The California Cancer Surveillance Program has seen a sharp drop in the agency's reporting of new cases to Californian cancer registries beginning in late 2004 -- from 3,000 cases in 2003 to almost none by the end of 2005, according to an article in the September issue of Lancet Oncology.
(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...
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I bet the guys at the Blue Water Navy site could tell them why...
the “why” is asbestos exposure and the current spate of mesothelioma lung cancers.......the official etiology threshold for a successful service-connected disability claim is “at least as likely as not”.....
money is the real “why”
Not to mention Type 2 Diabetes, CLL Leukemia (me!) Prostate Cancers, etc., etc., etc. Navy Guys started showing Agent Orange related cancers at an even higher rate than the guys who qualified under the "Boots on the Ground" 2002 rule revision; just about the same time these cancers began to show up in LARGE numbers ...
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