[Incidence of malignant tumours (1996-2012) in young Italian soldiers sent on mission abroad. Preliminary analysis of the data of the Parliamentary Enquiring Commission on depleted uranium and vaccines (CUC)].

Introduction: since 2000s, epidemiological studies conducted by the Italian Ministry of Defence on Italian soldiers sent on a mission abroad showed excess mortality and/or incidence for Hodgkin lymphomas and also a significant reduction of all tumours and of all diseases.

Objectives: this analysis aim to evaluate tumour incidence and overall mortality among Italian soldiers sent on a mission abroad (period 1996-2012; 3,663 cases). This investigation is preliminary to a more complete retrospective study on the cohort of soldiers affected by tumour (No.