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----------- Pesticide Exposure Linked to Cancer in Children By Keith Mulvihill NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Additional evidence that pesticide exposure may increase a child's risk of cancer has been found by researchers. However, the investigators point out that the vast number of pesticides--including home insecticides, garden sprays and routine use of exterminators--make it difficult to identify which pesticides might be responsible for the link. Dr. Jonathan D. Buckley of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and colleagues compared the pesticide exposures of 268 children who developed a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma against the exposures in healthy children. .... SOURCE: Cancer 2000;89:2315-2321. the full article is not available: You can look also under disease NHL. http://www.safer-world.org/e/disease/nhl.htm
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