Vietnam Vets With Bile Duct Cancer

This type of cancer is rare in the united states but much more common in southeast asia.

Vietnam vets with bile duct cancer.

Parasites in raw or poorly cooked river fish. Vietnam vets may be at risk for rare bile duct cancer. Va disability benefits for cholangiocarcinoma. The worms infect an estimated 25 million people mostly in asia but are less known in america.

Some veterans who served in vietnam thailand laos and cambodia have developed bile duct cancer. However it is important to be aware of the risk of exposure due to service in southeast asia. Veterans may have developed this cancer from exposure to liver flukes from eating raw or under cooked fish during their service. Vietnam veterans across the country have now been warned that they might be at risk for a rare bile duct cancer after a recent department of veterans affairs va study found that hundreds of individuals who served in the vietnam war may have been unknowingly infected by a carcinogenic parasite while in southeast asia the associated press reports.

Liver flukes parasites that infect a human when raw or undercooked fish is eaten are being investigated as the cause of a rare bile duct cancer among veterans who served in the vietnam war.