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Thanks for posting, on a quick glance the Act relates to treating veterans who have been exposed to various situation, I just looked into the first one which is open burn pits.

This is where all the waste while serving was burned on site in an open pit so veterans have been exposed to smoke and hazardous chemicals in the smoke, it is now assumed that veterans have had exposure to this and some of the conditions that may arise are

Presumptive Conditions for Airborne Hazards and Burn Pit Exposures

The following are presumptive conditions:

• Brain cancer
• Gastrointestinal cancer of any type
• Glioblastoma
• Head cancer of any type
• Kidney cancer
• Lymphatic cancer of any type
• Lymphoma of any type
• Melanoma
• Neck cancer
• Pancreatic cancer
• Reproductive cancer of any type
• Squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx
• Squamous cell carcinoma of the trachea
• Adenocarcinoma of the trachea
• Salivary gland-type tumors of the trachea
• Adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung
• Large cell carcinoma of the lung
• Salivary gland-type tumors of the lung
• Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung
• Typical and atypical carcinoid of the lung
• Respiratory (breathing-related) cancer of any type

All of the above will require various scans to detect and treat any of the conditions. Right now veterans are being supplied copies of scans on CDs to keep and also to take to other specialists, the file transfer and storage service that 3DICOM offers will provide veterans direct access to hold their scans without having to apply to VA to access them.

5000 Veterans are already signed up to use the File storage/transfer service, hopefully this speeds some more contracts up. In my view once enough of the veterans are using it there is more chance of a blanket wide approach for all veterans.