Houston VA to Study Prostate Cancer & Agent Orange in African-American Vets, Using New Research Grant

NOTE: Like me, many C-123 vets are concerned about bladder cancer and prostate cancer, and we hope that VA will soon designate bladder cancer as an Agent Orange-related illnesses. Some vets have been successful with claims that prostate cancer increased their odds of bladder cancer, and argued with VA successfully to win disability claims.

Prostate cancer, however, is well-established as an Agent Orange-presumptive illness. VA has honored disability claims for many years, and even the most recent research has only firmed up the science behind the link between Agent Orange and cancer. My own oncologist at VA MedicaL Center Portland, Dr. Mark Garzatto, established that Agent Orange vets have twice the rate of cancers, and that ours are twice as likely to be highly aggressive cancers. Not good, and maybe this recent grant by the Prostate Cancer Foundation will help improve things.

Houston VA to Study Prostate Cancer with New Research Grant
Thanks to a new $1 million grant awarded by the Prostate Cancer Foundation, researchers will be able to study the link between prostate cancer and exposure to Agent Orange in African-American male veterans who served during the Vietnam War.