There is a link between Agent Orange and kidney cancer

Researchers from the Louisiana Center for Veterans' Health Center have found that in US veterans exposed to Agent Orange / dioxin in Vietnam there is a link between this toxin and the disease. Kidney cancer.

At a special press conference held on May 13, the American Urological Society's annual conference in Washington, DC, Dr. Anthony Y. Smith said: " We know well that the chemicals in the skin toxin. oranges are extremely toxic and these toxins are also known to be carcinogens. "

He said his team will study further to make sure that exposure to the toxin poses a risk for kidney cancer.

After carefully studying the records of 297 patients diagnosed with kidney cancer in the period from 1987 to 2009, experts found 13 of these patients, when diagnosed with age-related disease From 39 to 63, said they were exposed to Agent Orange / dioxin.

The conclusions on herbicide exposure were found in the medical records of 10 patients and 9/10 of these patients were suffering from cancer-related cancer cells and one patient had both forms. Light cell cancer and papillary thyroid. In 54 months since the disease was discovered, 4 patients had metastatic cancer and one patient died.

The findings of researchers from the Louisiana State Veterans Health Center are only considered to be initial findings because the results have not yet been verified and verified by other scientists. Years ago, the Institute of Medicine under the US Academy of Sciences confirmed a link between Agent Orange / dioxin and many diseases, including cancer.