DDT and breast cancer in young women: new data on the significance of age at exposure.(Research)(dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane)(Clinical report)

Environmental Health Perspectives | October 1, 2007| | Copyright

BACKGROUND: Previous studies of DDT and breast cancer assessed exposure later in life when the breast may not have been vulnerable, after most DDT had been eliminated, and after DDT had been banned.

OBJECTIVES: We investigated whether DDT exposure in young women during the period of peak DDT use predicts breast cancer.

METHODS: We conducted a prospective, nested case-control study with a median time to diagnosis of 17 years using blood samples obtained from young women during 1959-1967. Subjects were members of the Child Health and Development Studies, ...

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