Agent Orange - Pancreatic Cancer Research Study

Mission and Background

The goal of the Agent Orange - Pancreatic Research Study is to support a research project at Stanford Medicine, to study the relationship of Agent Orange and Pancreatic Cancer. My mission is to reach out to Vietnam veterans and the broader community for funding this study, and gather information from veterans who have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Hopefully the results this study will be able to establish Pancreatic Cancer could be caused by Agent Orange. Hopefully the VA will accept these results.

● My name is Don Pugh and I am a Vietnam veteran that served 1969 to 1970 in Long Binh. We were frequently spayed by Agent Orange and other chemicals that no one admitted were very unhealthy. In 2000 I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer which was successfully treated at Stanford Medicine. At that time I became aware of the fact that Agent Orange is a probable cause of prostate cancer, and subsequently filed a claim with the VA. And I also learned that the VA stonewalled agreeing with this for 20 years before they finally admitted that Agent Orange was bad stuff and probably caused my Prostate Cancer and some 10 other diseases.

● In 2020, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was successfully treated by Dr. Poultsides at Stanford Medicine. I discovered that no one had done substantial research to convince the VA that pancreatic cancer could also be caused by Agent Orange. It is unfortunate that the burden of proof is on the soldiers and sailors that risked their lives for our country. So we need to do this ourselves. The goal of this study is to fund the research into this question.

You can contact me at:

don@agentorange-pancreaticcancer.org

Research Study

● Dr. Poultsides is Chief of Surgical Oncology at Stanford Medicine. He was my surgeon who successfully treated me, and is the Principal Investigator on the study. More information on him can be seen at

https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/george-poultsides.

The next page describes the research study he is conducting.

Questions regarding the research can be sent to:

Send email to Research Team

Please help fund this study

●The budget for the study is $25,000. We hope to raise that amount in the next several months.

Contributions by check should be made out to:

Stanford University

with a memo

Agent Orange - Pancreatic Cancer Research

Checks can be mailed to:

Stanford University,
Development Services
P.O. Box 20466
Stanford, CA 94309-0466.