Agent Orange exposure increases veterans' risk of aggressive recurrence of prost...(; Even if you never set foot in Vietnam...)

Date:4/20/2009

; "Even if you never set foot in Vietnam or outside the United States," she says. So she is now measuring levels in the body fat which is like a repository for what the body has been exposed to to determine how levels correlate to their cancer severity.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and trails lung cancer as the second leading cause of cancer death.

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Contact: Toni Baker tbaker@mcg.edu 706-721-4421 Medical College of Georgia Source:Eurekalert

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