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Applying certain agricultural pesticides increases the risk of prostate cancer.
2003 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Applying certain agricultural pesticides increases the risk of prostate cancer.
In recent research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "authors examined the relation between 45 common agricultural pesticides and prostate cancer incidence in a prospective cohort study of 55,332 male pesticide applicators from Iowa and North Carolina with no prior history of prostate cancer.
"Data were collected by means of self-administered questionnaires completed at enrollment (1993-1997). Cancer incidence was determined through population-based cancer registries from enrollment through December 31, 1999," wrote M.C.R. Alavanja and colleagues, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics.
"A prostate cancer standardized incidence ratio was computed for the cohort. Odds ratios were computed for individual pesticides and for pesticide use patterns identified by means of factor analysis," the researchers wrote.
"A prostate cancer standardized incidence ratio of 1.14 (95% confidence interval: 1.05, 1.24) was observed for the Agricultural Health Study cohort. Use of chlorinated ...
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