TABLE 3-4

Table 3-4 -- Frequency of Primary Diagnoses of Cancer (Malignant Neoplasms) in Participants in DOD's CCEP and VA's Registry

                      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and K.Y. Lee, "Health Surveillance of Persian Gulf War Veterans-A Review of the DVA Persian Gulf Registry Data," unpublished report, Department of Veterans Affairs, March 1996.