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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Summary of Workshop." Institute of Medicine. 2001. Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10098.
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APPENDIX A
Summary of Workshop on the Review of Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides

PUBLIC WORKSHOP

May 23, 2000

Room 2004, The Foundry Building

Washington, D.C.

Workshop Presentations and Speakers

  • Veterans’ Perspective of IOM’s Task

    Lisa Spahr, The American Legion, Washington, D.C.

  • Where We Are, Where We’re Headed

    George Claxton, Vietnam Veterans of America, Silver Spring, Maryland

  • Health Problems of Women Veterans of the Vietnam War

    Linda Spoonster Schwartz, R.N., M.S.N., Dr.P.H., Associate Research Scientist, Office of Research and Policy, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut

  • Diabetes Mellitus, Related to Agent Orange Handling During Service in Wartime Vietnam

    Turner Camp, M.D., Silver Spring, Maryland

  • Husband’s Death and Agent Orange

    Jennie LeFevre, Shady Side, Maryland

  • Veterans’ Health Problems: Heart Disease, Diabetes, Peripheral Neuropathy, Soft Knots Covering Body, Chloracne

    Shelia Winsett, Jasper, Alabama

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Summary of Workshop." Institute of Medicine. 2001. Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10098.
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000 examines the state of the scientific evidence regarding associations between diseases and exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in herbicides used in Vietnam. It is the fourth in a series of comprehensive reviews of epidemiologic and toxicologic studies of the agents used as defoliants during the Vietnam War. Over forty health outcomes in veterans and their children are addressed.

Among the report's conclusions is that there is sufficient evidence of a link between exposure and the development of soft-tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and chloracne in veterans. Additionally, it found that scientific studies offer "limited or suggestive" evidence of an association with other diseases in veterans—including Type 2 diabetes, respiratory cancers, prostate cancer, multiple myeloma and some forms of transient peripheral neuropathy—as well as the congenital birth defect spina bifida in veterans' children.

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