Pesticides are a family of compounds which have brought many benefits to mankind in the
agricultural, industrial, and health areas, but their toxicities in both humans and animals …

Along with the wide use of pesticides in the world, the concerns over their health impacts are
rapidly growing. There is a huge body of evidence on the relation between exposure to …

Pesticides are widely used in agricultural and other settings, resulting in continuing human
exposure. Epidemiologic studies indicate that, despite premarket animal testing, current …

Worldwide it is estimated that approximately 1.8 billion people engage in agriculture and
most use pesticides to protect the food and commercial products that they produce. Others …

Although overall incidence is rare, leukemia is the most common type of childhood cancer. It
accounts for 30% of all cancers diagnosed in children younger than 15 years. Within this …

OBJECTIVE To review literature documenting associations between pesticide use and
cancer. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, PreMedline, CancerLit, and LILACS to …

This review summarizes the level of epidemiologic evidence for relationships between
prenatal and/or early life exposure to environmental chemical contaminants and fetal, child …

Pesticides are a collective term for a wide array of chemicals intended to kill unwanted
insects, plants, molds, and rodents. Food, water, and treatment in the home, yard, and …

Acute leukemia is the most common cancer in children but the causes of the disease in the
majority of cases are not known. About 80% are precursor-B cell in origin (CD19+, CD10+) …

What do we currently know about the occupational and environmental causes of cancer? As
of 2007, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (1ARC) identified 415 known or …