[43north]

I you are male and you live long enoguh there is a 100% chance that you will develop prostate cancer. Agent Orange has nothing to do with it, testosterone does.

[allmost]

Dioxin does not cause cancer you say?

[ComputerGuy]

Agent Orange has nothing to do with it
I'm sure you've got reams of data to support that.

[spectre]

Diseases Associated With Exposure to Agent Orange

These are the diseases which VA currently presumes resulted from exposure to herbicides like Agent Orange. The law requires that some of these diseases be at least 10% disabling under VA’s rating regulations within a deadline that began to run the day you left Vietnam.

If there is a deadline, it is listed in parentheses after the name of the disease.

Chloracne or other acneform disease consistent with chloracne. (Must occur within one year of exposure to Agent Orange).

Diabetes Mellitus, Type II

Hodgkin’s disease.

Multiple myeloma.

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy. (For purposes of this section, the term acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy means temporary peripheral neuropathy that appears within weeks or months of exposure to an herbicide agent and resolves within two years of the date of onset.)

Porphyria cutanea tarda. (Must occur within one year of exposure to Agent Orange)

. Prostate cancer.

Respiratory cancers (cancer of the lung, bronchus, larynx, or trachea).

Soft-tissue sarcoma (other than osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma, or mesothelioma).

& CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA

So if any of you Viet Nam vets just set one foot on the ground during that war, and have been diagnosed with any of the above conditions, you are ENTITLED to disability compensation. God Bless you all..

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[Chinstrap61a]

I guess I qualify; I was exposed to Agent Orange while I was a Marine in Vietnam and my last PSA during a routine physical showed an increase from 5 to 6.5 in six moths

I underwent a biopsy of my prostate and it showed that I had a malignancy is six of 16 cores, so I underwent a prostatectomy three months ago. It's not a wonderful experience, but my latest blood test showed a negligible PSA level so I have some strong hope of living a bit longer.

For those of you that "attended the Southeast Asia War Games" with me, get those physicals. The version we get is aggressive - so don't avoid getting checked.

Great stuff, huh? First, they decide they don't like the war anymore after we get there - then they treat us like crap when we get back and now we find out we have the "gift that keeps on giving" years after the war!

Welcome home, guys!