[CPEO-MEF] VETERANS, MISSILES: "Air Force expands review of cancers for service members who worked with nuclear missiles"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force expands review of cancers for service members who worked with nuclear missiles

By TARA COPP  
ASSOCIATED PRESS 
December 4, 2023


WASHINGTON — The Air Force is expanding its study of whether service members who worked with nuclear missiles have had unusually high rates of cancer after a preliminary review determined that a deeper examination is needed.

The initial study was launched in response to reports that many who served are now ill. The Air Force isn’t making its initial findings of cancer numbers public for a month or so, but released its initial assessment Monday that more review is necessary.

“We’ve determined that additional study is warranted” based on preliminary analyses of the data, said Lt. Col. Keith Beam, one of several Air Force medical officers who updated reporters on the service’s missile community cancer review.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-12-04/air-force-cancer-nuclear-missiles-12254793.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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