Pesticides Linked To Child Cancer Cases

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Pesticides Linked To Child Cancer Cases
ALL Patients More Likely To Have Chemicals In Urine

POSTED: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Researchers say that children with a form of cancer known as ALL -- which usually develops between the ages of 3 and 7 -- had a higher level of pesticides in their urine than is usually seen.

They said in a news release that the study did not show that the chemicals caused the cancer, only that they seem to be somehow related.

Lead investigator Offie Soldin said high levels were often also found in the mothers of kids with cancer. The study looked at 41 children with cancer and 41 healthy kids that were matched by age, sex and the county they lived in near Washington, D.C.

Pesticides were found in the urine of more than half of the children, but the levels were higher in children with ALL.

Also, mothers of children with cancer were 33 percent more likely to say they used pesticides at home.

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"We know pesticides – sprays, strips, or 'bombs,' are found in at least 85 percent of households, but obviously not all the children in these homes develop cancer. What this study suggests is an association between pesticide exposure and the development of childhood ALL, but this isn't a cause-and-effect finding," Soldin said. "Future research would help us understand the exact role of pesticides in the development of cancer. We hypothesize that pre-natal exposure coupled with genetic susceptibility or an additional environmental insult after birth could be to blame."

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