Journal article
Cancer risk and parental pesticide application in children of Agricultural Health Study participants
Environmental health perspectives, Vol.112(5), pp.631-635
04/2004
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6586
PMCID: PMC1241933
PMID: 15064173
Abstract
Parental exposure to pesticides may contribute to childhood cancer risk. Through the Agricultural Health Study, a prospective study of pesticide applicators in Iowa and North Carolina, we examined childhood cancer risk and associations with parental pesticide application. Identifying information for 17,357 children of Iowa pesticide applicators was provided by parents via questionnaires (1993-1997) and matched against the Iowa Cancer Registry. Fifty incident childhood cancers were identified (1975-1998). Risk of all childhood cancers combined was increased [standardized incidence ratio (SIR) = 1.36; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.03-1.79]. Risk of all lymphomas combined was also increased (SIR = 2.18; 95% CI, 1.13-4.19), as was risk of Hodgkin's lymphoma (SIR = 2.56; 95% CI, 1.06-6.14). We used logistic regression to explore associations between self-reported parental pesticide application practices and childhood cancer risk. No association was detected between frequency of parental pesticide application and childhood cancer risk. An increased risk of cancer was detected among children whose fathers did not use chemically resistant gloves [odds ratio (OR) = 1.98; 95% CI, 1.05-3.76] compared with children whose fathers used gloves. Of 16 specific pesticides used by fathers prenatally, ORs were increased for aldrin (OR = 2.66), dichlorvos (OR = 2.06), and ethyl dipropylthiocarbamate (OR = 1.91). However, these results were based on small numbers and not supported by prior biologic evidence. Identification of excess lymphoma risk suggests that farm exposures including pesticides may play a role in the etiology of childhood lymphoma.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cancer risk and parental pesticide application in children of Agricultural Health Study participants
- Creators
- Kori B Flower - Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Division of Community Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7105, USA. kori_flower@med.unc.eduJane A HoppinCharles F LynchAaron BlairCharles KnottDavid L ShoreDale P Sandler
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Environmental health perspectives, Vol.112(5), pp.631-635
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1289/ehp.6586
- PMID
- 15064173
- PMCID
- PMC1241933
- ISSN
- 0091-6765
- eISSN
- 1552-9924
- Grant note
- P30 ES 05605 / NIEHS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2004
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology
- Record Identifier
- 9983996078202771
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