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BREAST CANCER
"I think the future commander in chief needs to show up and talk about what kills 600,000 Americans a year.
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Reported Residential Pesticide Use and Breast Cancer Risk on Long Island, New York
Susan L. Teitelbaum1, Marilie D. Gammon2, Julie A. Britton1, Alfred I. Neugut3,4, Bruce Levin5 and Steven D. Stellman3
1 Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
3 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
4 Department of Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
5 Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
Correspondence to Dr. Susan L. Teitelbaum, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1043, New York, NY 10029 (e-mail: susan.teitelbaum{at}mssm.edu ). Received for publication February 2, 2006. Accepted for publication July 28, 2006. (e-mail: susan.teitelbaum@mssm.edu ). Pesticides, common environmental exposures, have been examined in relation to breast cancer primarily in occupational studies or exposure biomarker studies. No known studies have focused on self-reported residential pesticide use. The authors investigated the association between reported lifetime residential pesticide use and breast cancer risk among women living on Long Island, New York. They conducted a population-based case-control study of 1,508 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer between August 1996 and July 1997 and 1,556 randomly selected, age-frequency-matched controls.
Comprehensive residential pesticide use and other risk factors were assessed by using an in-person,
interviewer-administered questionnaire. Unconditional logisticregression was used to calculate odds ratios
and 95% confidence intervals. Breast cancer risk was associated with ever lifetime residential pesticide
use (odds ratio = 1.39, 95% confidence interval: 1.15, 1.68). However, there was no evidence of
increasing risk with increasing lifetime applications. Lawn and garden pesticide use was
associated with breast cancer risk, but there was no dose response. Little or no association was
found for nuisance-pest pesticides, insect repellants, or products to control lice or fleas and ticks on pets.
This study is the first known to suggest that self-reported use of residential pesticides may
increase breast cancer risk. Further investigation in other populations is necessary to confirm these findings.
breast neoplasms; case-control studies; environmental exposure; gardening; housing; pesticides
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; LIBCSP, Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project; OR, odds ratio
Pesticides were one of the earliest suspects in the search for environmental factors in breast cancer; because laboratory studies show that many pesticides can mimic estrogen, a known breast cancer risk factor, or disrupt other hormones. Investigating this link is difficult, though, because we have all been exposed to multiple pesticides via multiple pathways. To study the effect on breast cancer, we need the right way to measure those exposures.Widower Files $2.5 Million Pesticide Lawsuit Breast Cancer Action (Silence Is the Sound of Money Talking)
Sending women onto pesticide-saturated grass to raise money for breast cancer seems problematic to me when the
sponsoring organization is one that is committed to addressing the environmental causes of cancer.
While the commitment of the organization may be unshakable, the methods
used to do its work and the larger social effects of those methods must be questioned
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