Fed Regist. 1998 Sep 24;63(185):50993-5.
This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication regulations concerning compensation for diseases claimed to be the result of exposure to ionizing radiation. This amendment implements a decision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that, based on all evidence currently available to him, prostate cancer and any other cancers may be induced by ionizing radiation. The intended effect of this action is to relieve veterans, or their survivors, seeking benefits under the provisions of the Veterans' Dioxin and Radiation Exposure Compensation Standards Act of the burden of having to submit evidence that a veteran's prostate cancer or any other cancer may have been induced by ionizing radiation.
本文件修订了退伍军人事务部（VA）关于对声称因接触电离辐射而患疾病的赔偿的裁决规定。本次修订落实了退伍军人事务部部长的一项决定，即根据其目前掌握的所有证据，电离辐射可能诱发前列腺癌和任何其他癌症。这一行动的预期效果是减轻那些根据《退伍军人二恶英和辐射暴露赔偿标准法》寻求福利的退伍军人或其遗属提交证据证明退伍军人的前列腺癌或任何其他癌症可能由电离辐射诱发的负担。
