Pesticides and Breast Cancer.

Nutrition Action Healthletter | March 1, 1999| | Copyright

Women with higher levels of the pesticide dieldrin in their blood have a greater risk of breast cancer, say researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and elsewhere.

In 1976, John Brock and colleagues collected blood samples from 7,712 healthy Danish women in the Copenhagen City Heart Study. By 1993, 240 of the women had been diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. The researchers compared the levels of 18 pesticides (or their breakdown products) and the chemical contaminant PCB in blood samples from those women to samples from 477 ...

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