Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides
Environmental epidemiological investigations in cancer remain, with rare exceptions, inconclusive. The difficulties of establishing patterns of measurements of exposure in the human body is one of the limitations of these studies. The findings of six recent epidemiological studies that analyzed the...
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| description | Environmental epidemiological investigations in cancer remain, with rare exceptions, inconclusive. The difficulties of establishing patterns of measurements of exposure in the human body is one of the limitations of these studies. The findings of six recent epidemiological studies that analyzed the association between organochlorinated compounds and breast cancer are reviewed in considering the problems of measuring environmental exposure through biological markers. The epidemiological evidence based on these studies do not indicate a risk of breast cancer related to organochlorines. Some aspects that may partially explain this absence of risk are discussed regarding the investigation of environmental carcinogenic agents in populations with low but homogeneously sprayed levels of exposure. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-178818b4dadd4d2aa0046cf9fa3f18752022-12-22T00:27:50ZengEscola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo CruzCadernos de Saúde Pública0102-311X1678-446414suppl 3S177S179S0102-311X1998000700018Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticidesGulnar Azevedo e Silva Mendonça0Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroEnvironmental epidemiological investigations in cancer remain, with rare exceptions, inconclusive. The difficulties of establishing patterns of measurements of exposure in the human body is one of the limitations of these studies. The findings of six recent epidemiological studies that analyzed the association between organochlorinated compounds and breast cancer are reviewed in considering the problems of measuring environmental exposure through biological markers. The epidemiological evidence based on these studies do not indicate a risk of breast cancer related to organochlorines. Some aspects that may partially explain this absence of risk are discussed regarding the investigation of environmental carcinogenic agents in populations with low but homogeneously sprayed levels of exposure.http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X1998000700018&lng=en&tlng=enbreast neoplasmspesticidesenvironmental exposure |
| spellingShingle | Gulnar Azevedo e Silva Mendonça Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides Cadernos de Saúde Pública breast neoplasms pesticides environmental exposure |
| title | Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides |
| title_full | Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides |
| title_fullStr | Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides |
| title_short | Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides |
| title_sort | measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides |
| topic | breast neoplasms pesticides environmental exposure |
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