VA Increases Agent Orange Illnesses      Presumptions List

The new list of 15 illnesses now recognized under VA's "presumption" rule are:

• Acute and Subacute Transient Peripheral Neuropathy

• AL Amyloidosis

• Chloracne

• Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

• Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2)

• Hairy Cell Leukemia

• Hodgkin's Disease

• Ischemic Heart Disease

• Multiple Myeloma

• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

• Parkinson’s Disease

• Porphyria Cutanea Tarda

• Prostate Cancer

• Respiratory Cancers

• Soft Tissue Sarcoma (other than Osteosarcoma, Chondrosarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, or Mesothelioma)