AGENT ORANGE

On the basis of the March 14, 1996, National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine’s report. "veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1996", which provides information concerning the health effects of exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam during the Vietnam Era. Secretary Brown authorized the expansion of the current list of conditions that are presumed to be related to military service, now, veterans who served in Vietnam may qualify for compensation for prostate cancer and acute and sub-acute peripheral neuropathy based on exposure to herbicides. These two conditions will be added to the current list of conditions that we presume are the result of exposure to herbicides which includes coherence or other acne form diseases: Hodgkin's disease: multiple myeloma: non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: porphyries cutanea tarda: cancer of the lung, bronchus, larynx or trachea: and soft-tissue sarcoma.