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From page 36... ... ; Tuberculosis, active; tumors, malignant, or of the brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves; ulcers Tropical Diseases Amebiasis; blackwater fever; cholera; dracontiasis; dysentery; filariasis; Leishmaniasis, including kala-azar; loiasis; malaria; onchocerciasis; Oroya fever; pinta; plague; schistosomiasis; yaws; yellow fever Former Prisoners of War Atherosclerotic heart disease and hypertensive vascular disease, including hypertensive heart disease; avitaminosis; beriberi; chronic dysentery; cirrhosis of the liver; dysthymic disorder (or depressive neurosis) ; helminthiasis; irritable bowel syndrome; malnutrition; organic residuals of frost bite; pellagra; peptic ulcer disease; peripheral neuropathy; posttraumatic osteoarthritis; psychosis; stroke; any other nutritional deficiency; any of the anxiety states Radiation Bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma; cancer of the bile ducts, bone, brain, breast, colon, esophagus, gall bladder, lung, ovary, pancreas, pharynx, sali vary gland, small intestine, stomach, thyroid, and urinary tract; leukemia; lymphomas; multiple myeloma; primary liver cancer Herbicide Agents Acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy; chloracne; chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Hodgkin's disease; multiple myeloma; non-Hodgkin's lym phoma; porphyria cutanea tarda; prostate cancer; respiratory cancers; soft-tissue sarcoma, including: adult fibrosarcoma, dermatofibrosarcoma pro tuberans, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, epithelioid leiomyosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, ectomesenchymoma, angiosarcoma, proliferating angioendotheliomatosis, malignant glomus tumor, malignant hemangiopericytoma, synovial sarcoma, malignant giant cell tumor of tendon sheath, malignant schwannoma, malignant mesenchymoma, malignant granular cell tumor, alveolar soft part sarcoma, epi thelioid sarcoma, clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses, extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma, congenital and infantile fibrosarcoma, malignant ganglioneuroma; type 2 diabetes Mustard Gas and Lewisite Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia; cancers (nasopharyngeal, laryngeal, lung (except mesothelioma) Read the entire page →
From page 37... ... . Malaria must have been contracted during active service with a presumptive period of 1 year after separation from active military service. Read the entire page →
From page 38... ... 1970s A new presumptive category was established in the 1970s -- Former Prisoners of War (POWs) Read the entire page →
From page 39... ... . Finally, several additional diseases associated with service in Vietnam were added in 1993 (VA, 1993d) Read the entire page →
From page 40... ... 108th Cong., 1st Sess.) , and additional diseases were presumptively connected for POWs in 2004 (VA, 2004) Read the entire page →
From page 41... ... 1996. Diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents (prostate cancer and acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy) Read the entire page →
From page 42... ... 2003b. Presumption of service connection for cirrhosis of the liver in former prisoners of war. Read the entire page →
From page 43... ... The process for establishing presumptions continued to evolve in recent years to respond to veterans who were deployed to the Persian Gulf during or shortly following the Gulf War in 1990. Although the focus for presumptions among Vietnam veterans centered on their exposure and health outcomes relating to the dioxin-contaminated herbicide, Agent Orange, the Gulf War has added new challenges caused by the multiple and various agents to which soldiers were exposed. Read the entire page →
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From page 47... ... They noted the absence of predeployment health assessments and inadequate surveillance of environmental exposures that troops may have encountered during the Gulf War notwithstanding lessons that should have been learned from Agent Orange and Vietnam (Petrou, 2006; Ryan, 2006; Scott, 2006; Yoder, 2006) Read the entire page →
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... ; Tuberculosis, active; tumors, malignant, or of the brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves; ulcers Tropical Diseases Amebiasis; blackwater fever; cholera; dracontiasis; dysentery; filariasis; Leishmaniasis, including kala-azar; loiasis; malaria; onchocerciasis; Oroya fever; pinta; plague; schistosomiasis; yaws; yellow fever Former Prisoners of War Atherosclerotic heart disease and hypertensive vascular disease, including hypertensive heart disease; avitaminosis; beriberi; chronic dysentery; cirrhosis of the liver; dysthymic disorder (or depressive neurosis) ; helminthiasis; irritable bowel syndrome; malnutrition; organic residuals of frost bite; pellagra; peptic ulcer disease; peripheral neuropathy; posttraumatic osteoarthritis; psychosis; stroke; any other nutritional deficiency; any of the anxiety states Radiation Bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma; cancer of the bile ducts, bone, brain, breast, colon, esophagus, gall bladder, lung, ovary, pancreas, pharynx, sali vary gland, small intestine, stomach, thyroid, and urinary tract; leukemia; lymphomas; multiple myeloma; primary liver cancer Herbicide Agents Acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy; chloracne; chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Hodgkin's disease; multiple myeloma; non-Hodgkin's lym phoma; porphyria cutanea tarda; prostate cancer; respiratory cancers; soft-tissue sarcoma, including: adult fibrosarcoma, dermatofibrosarcoma pro tuberans, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, epithelioid leiomyosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, ectomesenchymoma, angiosarcoma, proliferating angioendotheliomatosis, malignant glomus tumor, malignant hemangiopericytoma, synovial sarcoma, malignant giant cell tumor of tendon sheath, malignant schwannoma, malignant mesenchymoma, malignant granular cell tumor, alveolar soft part sarcoma, epi thelioid sarcoma, clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses, extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma, congenital and infantile fibrosarcoma, malignant ganglioneuroma; type 2 diabetes Mustard Gas and Lewisite Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia; cancers (nasopharyngeal, laryngeal, lung (except mesothelioma)