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Food security comes with a steep price: the strongest associations between pesticides and cancer was for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukaemia, and bladder cancerModern agriculture currently feeds the burgeoning human population mainly because of the widespread use of pesticides. Although these chemicals appear to be miracles for agriculture and food security , pesticide exposure harms the health of plants, animals and humans, according to an alarming, but not especially surprising, new study .
Professor Zapata and collaborators found that simply living near farms was enough to increase a person’s risk of cancers and in some cases, that increased cancer risk surpassed cancers caused by smoking. The strongest cancer risks were for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukaemia, and bladder cancer .
This study is the first comprehensive examination of cancer risks due to pesticide exposures with a population-based perspective at a national level, according to Professor Zapata and collaborators. Further, this is the first time that cancer risks due to pesticide exposures have been placed into a context with a cancer risk factor that is no longer questioned, in this case smoking.
agricultural pesticide use patterns. These patterns of use were defined by latent class analysis; estimates were derived from generalized linear models adjusted for agricultural land use, total population, the Social Vulnerability Index, and smoking rates. This plot contrasts the counties that have the least risky use of agricultural pesticides with the counties that have the riskiest use of agricultural pesticides.
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