The following published scientific studies are related to the issue of pesticides and cancer.
Curl CL, Fenske RA, Kai Elgethun (2003), Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure of Urban and Suburban Preschool Children with Organic and Conventional Diets, Environmental Health Perspectives, March 2003, Vol 111, No 3.
Dich J, Wiklund K. 1998. Prostate cancer in pesticide applicators in Swedish agriculture. The Prostate 34(2):100-112.
Fleming L, Bean J, Rudolph M, Hamilton K. 1999. Cancer incidence in a cohort of licensed pesticide applicators in Florida. J Occup Environ Med 41(4):279-288.
Fleming L, Bean J, Rudolph M, Hamilton K. 1999. Mortality in a cohort of licensed pesticide applicators in Florida. Occup Environ Med 56(1):14-21.
Furlong CE, Holland N, Richter RJ, Bradman A, Ho A, Eskenazi B (2006), PON1 status of farmworker mothers and children as a predictor of organophosphate sensitivity, Pharmacogenetics and Genomics 16, March 2006: 183-190.
Janssens J, Van Hecke E, Geys H, et al. 2001. Pesticides and mortality from hormone-dependent cancers. Eur J Cancer Prev 10(5):459-467.
Kaatsch P, Steliarova-Foucher E, Crocetti E, Magnani C, Spix C, Zambon P. (2006), Time trends of cancer incidence in European children (1978-1997): Report from the Automated Childhood Cancer Information System project, European Journal of Cancer, September 2004, No 42(13):1961-71
Kim SS, Lee RD, Lim KJ, Kwack SJ, Rhee GS, Seok JH, Lee GS, An BS, Jeung EB, Park KL. (2005). Potential estrogenic and antiandrogenic effects of permethrin in rats. J Reprod Dev., 51(2), pp201-210.
Kojima H, Katsura E, Takeuchi S, Niiyama K, Kobayashi K. (2004). Screening for estrogen and androgen receptor activities in 200 pesticides by in vitro reporter gene assays using Chinese hamster ovary cells. Environ Health Perspect., 112(5), pp524-531.
Lu C, Toespel K, Irish R, Fenske RA, Barr DB, Bravo R (2006), Organic diets significantly lower children’s dietary exposure to organophosphorus pesticides, Environmental Health Perspectives, February 2006, Vol 114, No 2: 260-263.
McCarthy AR, Thomson BM, Shaw IC, Abell AD. (2006). Estrogenicity of pyrethroid insecticide metabolites. J Environ Monit., 8(1), pp197-202.
Menegaux et all (2006), Household exposure to pesticides and risk of childhood acute leukaemia, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, February 2006 63(2), 131-4. Available online at: http://oem.bmjjournals.com/
Mills P. 1998. Correlation analysis of pesticide use data and cancer incidence rates in California counties. Arch Environ Health. 53(6):410-413.
Newby J A and Howard C V (2006), Environmental influences in cancer aetiology, Journal of Nutritional &
Environmental Medicine, 1-59. Available online at: http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=lx64780014236352
Sanborn, M., Cole, D., Kerr, K., Vakil, C., Sanin, L.H., Bassil, K. (2004) Systematic Review of Pesticide Human Health Effects, Ontario College of Family Physicians, Toronto. Available online at: http://www.ocfp.on.ca
Soto, AM, Sonnenschein, C, Chung, KL, Fernandez, MF, Olea, N, Serrano, FO (1995). The E-SCREEN assay as a tool to identify oestrogens: an update on oestrogenic environmental pollutants. Environ Health Perspect., 103 (7), pp113-122.
Tessier D, Matsumura F. 2001. Increased ErbB-2 tyrosine kinase activity, MAPK phosphorylation, and cell proliferation in the prostate cancer cell line LNCaP following treatment by select pesticides. Toxicol Sci 60(1):38-43.
