Fed: Government conducts another Vietnam veteran health study
The federal government is to conduct a third mortality study of Australia's 50,000veterans of the Vietnam conflict.
Veterans Affairs Minister DANNA VALE says the study will provide valuable new informationabout the Vietnam veteran community.
She says this will assist the government in the implementation of its veterans' healthprograms in coming years.
The study will match the Vietnam veterans' roll against death and cancer registries,the electoral roll and passport records to identify death rates and causes and the incidenceof cancer.
Ms VALE says it will include the first cancer incidence study on navy and air forceveterans of Vietnam and the first to examine mortality ship by ship.
The last study in 1997 found Vietnam veteran death rates from all types of cancer about20 per cent higher than would be expected with 224 deaths from lung cancer -- a rate 30per cent higher than expected.
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KEYWORD: VETERANS (CANBERRA)
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