The study must review the literature for links to eleven named cancers
To provide for a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the prevalence and mortality of cancer among individuals who served as active duty aircrew in the Armed Forces, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2.
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The study must review the literature for links to eleven named cancers
The document says “shall”Who acts: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicineHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“review the literature to determine associations between exposures referred to in paragraph (1) and the incidence or prevalence of overall cancer morbidity, overall cancer mortality, and increased incidence or prevalence of-- (A) brain cancer; (B) colon and rectal cancers; (C) kidney cancer; (D) lung cancer; (E) melanoma skin cancer; (F) non-Hodgkin lymphoma; (G) pancreatic cancer; (H) prostate cancer; (I) testicular cancer; (J) thyroid cancer; (K) urinary bladder cancer”
Subsection (b)(2), the second of three things the study must do. Eleven cancers are listed by name. A twelfth item, subparagraph (L), leaves further cancers to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to determine, in consultation with the National Academies.
What the document actually says
“review the literature to determine associations between exposures referred to in paragraph (1) and the incidence or prevalence of overall cancer morbidity, overall cancer mortality, and increased incidence or prevalence of-- (A) brain cancer; (B) colon and rectal cancers; (C) kidney cancer; (D) lung cancer; (E) melanoma skin cancer; (F) non-Hodgkin lymphoma; (G) pancreatic cancer; (H) prostate cancer; (I) testicular cancer; (J) thyroid cancer; (K) urinary bladder cancer”
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Next the study must read what has been written. It must look for ties between those things and cancer. It must look at all cancer. It must also look at eleven kinds one by one.
What this is about
The list names cancer of the brain, colon, kidney, lung, skin, pancreas, prostate, testicles, thyroid and bladder. It also names a blood cancer. The VA may add more kinds.
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ACES Act of 2025, Public Law 119-32, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 480 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ32/html/PLAW-119publ32.htm
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“The study must review the literature for links to eleven named cancers,” ACES Act of 2025, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/aces-act-2025/proposal/sec02-study-review-literature/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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