BMJ 2003;327 (13 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7428.0-a
... but their cancer risk is the same
Veterans of the Gulf war do not have a higher risk of cancer than other soldiers. Macfarlane and colleagues (p 1373) analysed data from a cohort study including more than 100 000 soldiers serving in 1991, half of them Gulf war veterans. Gulf war veterans had the same overall and organ specific risk of cancer as other soldiers, even after lifestyle and alcohol consumption had been adjusted for. Adjustment for self reported exposure to multiple vaccinations, pesticides, and depleted uranium did not increase the risk of cancer in Gulf war veterans.
|
|
Credit: SIPA/REX
|
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
StumbleUpon 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Article
- Incidence of cancer among UK Gulf war veterans: cohort study
- Gary J Macfarlane, Anne-Marie Biggs, Noreen Maconochie, Matthew Hotopf, Patricia Doyle, and Mark Lunt
BMJ 2003 327: 1373.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
This Article
- Respond to this article
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when responses are posted
- Alert me when a correction is posted
Services
- Email this article to a friend
- Find similar articles in BMJ
- Find similar articles in ISI Web of Science
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
Related Content
Bookmark with
What's new
Latest blogs
Find BMJ on:
Services
Tools
Online poll
Resources
Rapid responses for this article
There are no rapid responses for this article. Print issues
