DDT and breast cancer revisited: new findings in an old debate.(Science Selections)(dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane)

Environmental Health Perspectives | October 1, 2007| | Copyright

Author Rachel Carson made the initial claim in her 1962 best-seller Silent Spring. Subsequent studies, including a meta-analysis published in EHP [Lopez-Cervantes et al. 112:207-214], downplayed the connection. Now researchers have found new evidence potentially linking DDT with breast cancer in women [EHP 115:1406-1414; Cohn et al]. The findings come at a time when DDT is once again being promoted as a tool to combat malaria.

DDT was widely used as a pesticide in the United States and elsewhere beginning in the mid-1940s. Although DDT was highly effective in ...

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