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Gulf War and Health: Volume 2. Insecticides and Solvents (2003)
Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP)
Institute of Medicine (IOM)

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Gulf War and Health: Insecticides and Solvents, Volume 2

INADEQUATE/INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO DETERMINE WHETHER AN ASSOCIATION EXISTS:

Cancers:

  • Solvents and oral, nasal, or laryngeal cancer

  • Insecticides and pancreatic cancer

  • Solvents other than tetrachloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvents and esophageal cancer

  • Solvents and stomach, rectal, or pancreatic cancer

  • Solvents other than trichloroethylene and mixtures of benzene, toluene, and xylene and colon cancer

  • Insecticides and solvents and hepatobiliary cancers

  • Insecticides and lung cancer

  • Solvents other than tetrachloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvents and lung cancer

  • Solvents and bone cancer

  • Solvents and melanoma or nonmelanoma skin cancer

  • Insecticides and soft tissue sarcomas

  • Lindane and solvents and breast cancer

  • Solvents other than trichloroethylene and cervical cancer

  • Solvents and ovarian or uterine cancer

  • Solvents and prostate cancer

  • Insecticides and prostate, testicular, bladder, or kidney cancers

  • Specific solvents other than tetrachloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvents and bladder cancer

  • Specific solvents other than tetrachloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvents and kidney cancer

  • Insecticides and brain and other central nervous system cancers

  • Specific solvents other than benzene and brain and other central nervous system cancers

  • Specific solvents other than benzene and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

  • Insecticides and solvents and Hodgkin’s disease

  • Insecticides and specific solvents and multiple myeloma

  • Specific solvents other than benzene and acute and adult leukemia

  • Benzene and myelodysplastic syndromes

  • Parental preconception exposure to insecticides and childhood leukemias, brain and other central nervous system cancers, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

  • Parental preconception exposure to solvents and neuroblastoma and childhood brain cancers

Neurologic Effects:

  • Insecticides and solvents and peripheral neuropathy

  • Insecticides and solvents and Parkinson’s disease

  • Insecticides and solvents and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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