Number of cases in CCEP Number of cases in VA (N=52) Registry (N=226) Type of cancer Male Female Male Female Malignant melanoma 3 0 11 2 Other skin cancer 6 0 44 1 Hodgkin's Disease 8 0 19 1 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma 4 1 15 0 Multiple myeloma 0 0 2 0 Leukemia 6 1 8 0 Soft tissue 0 0 8 0 Brain and 5 0 6 1 meninges Thyroid 1 1 6 0 Prostate 1 0 2 0 Testicular 4 0 20 0 Colon 1 0 7 0 Breast 0 2 0 5 Cervix uteri 0 1 0 5 Ovary 0 1 0 1 Vagina 0 0 0 1 Stomach 0 1 0 0 Lung 3 0 8 1 Bladder 1 0 4 0 Kidney 1 0 2 2 Other types 0 0 40 4 ____ ____ ____ ____ Total 44 8 202 24
SOURCES: U.S. Department of Defense, Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program for Persian Gulf War Veterans: CCEP Report on 18,598 Participants (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense, 1996); and H.K. Kang, N.A. Dalager, and K.Y. Lee, "Health Surveillance of Persian Gulf War Veterans-A Review of the DVA Persian Gulf Registry Data," unpublished report, Department of Veterans Affairs, March 1996.