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Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam Final Report (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Project 5: Analysis of IARC Tissue Samples of Selected Vietnamese for Dioxin and Dibenzofuran Levels in Archived Adipose Tissue
Pages 34-35

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... As delineated in the discussion of Projects ~ and 3, initial attempts to use NPRC uncovered substantial barriers to data access and poor-quality data. The Columbia University researchers concluded that those problems could not be resolved soon enough to pursue this project, and with the assent of the committee it was abandoned.
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... In March 1999, the lARC study manager visited Vietnam to attempt to resolve some of the data-quality issues that had arisen in the work. Her trip report raised questions for the Columbia University researchers regarding the reliability of some subjects' residence data.
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