Dr. Mikkael Sekeres (IMAGE)

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Dr. Mikkael Sekeres

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“This study has been a personal quest,” said Mikkael Sekeres, M.D., chief of hematology at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. “I see veterans who develop these conditions and need expensive medical care, but I can’t write a letter that establishes causality because, before this study, we hadn’t clearly linked Agent Orange to MDS…If our work can move the needle even a little, that feels incredibly meaningful.”

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