COMMENTS:
Agent Orange (herbicide) may spur cancer in offspring
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DEAR SIRS:
MY FATHER-IN-LAW SERVED IN THE VIETNAM WAR. HE WAS EXPOSED TO THE AGENT ORANGE. MY HUSBAND WAS BORN ON 2/12/72. HE CAME DOWN WITH ULCERATIVE COLISTIS OF THE LARGE INTESTINE WHEN HE WAS 11 YEARS OF AGE. THEY TRIED TO CURE HIM WITH STEROIDS AND DID NOT SUCCEED.
AFTER A YEAR OF STEROIDS AND NO PROGRESS, THEY HAD TO REMOVE THE LARGE COLON, OR HE WOULD HAVE DEVELOPED COLON CANCER. HE IS NOW 29 YEARS OF AGE AND STILL HAS AN ILIOSTOMY AS A RESULT OF THE ULCERATIVE COLITIS.
HE ALSO HAS A YOUNGER BROTHER WHO WAS BORN IN 1974. HIS BROTHER WAS BORN WITH MULTIPLE BIRTH DEFECTS TO HIS COLON AND URINARY TRACT. THEY DID OVER A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF WORK ON HIS BOWELS. HE CONSTANTLY HAD TO GO IN FOR DIALATION OF HIS URINARY TRACT. FORTUNATELY, HE NO LONGER HAS ANY PROBLEMS, JUST A LOT OF SCARS FROM HIS SURGERY (HE ALSO HAD A COLOSTOMY AT A VERY YOUNG AGE, I THINK THE AGES OF 3 TO 4).
NOT EVEN A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, MY FATHER-IN-LAW BEGAN TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH BLEEDING RECTALLY. HE FOUND OUT THAT HE HAS COLITIS ALSO.
THANK YOU,
JANET