Veterans and Agent Orange Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam Veterans (2002) / Chapter Skim
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The first was a case-control study of AML and parental occupational exposures conducted by the Children's Cancer Study Group (Buckley et al., 1989~. Use of pesticides by either the mother or father, as reported in detailed interviews, was associated with an elevated risk.
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Children with AML whose parents purchased pesticides Studies Reviewed in Update 2000 Meinert et al., Population-based case-control study of 2000 childhood cancer Leukemias, paternal exposure, year before pregnancy Leukemias, paternal exposure, during pregnancy Leukemias, maternal exposure, year before pregnancy Leukemias, maternal exposure, during pregnancy Studies Reviewed in Update 1996 Pesatori et al., Seveso residents aged 0-19 years 10-year 1993 follow-up, morbidity All cancers Lymphatic leukemia Myeloid leukemia SIR = 1.0 (0.5-1.8)
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This study had not been reviewed in previous Veterans and Agent Orange series reports.
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Additionally, the authors point out that an unexplained increase in risk with longer time since service in Vietnam or Cambodia might have been due to randomness in the data, but could also have been due to an unmeasured post-war exposure that was different from those who did not serve in the military, or who served elsewhere. A third study was that of the Australian Vietnam veterans.
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