Epidemiological Evaluation of Cancer Risk in Humans Due To Pesticide Exposure

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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL

EVALUATION OF CANCER
RISK IN HUMANS DUE TO
PESTICIDE EXPOSURE
CONTENTS

▪ Pesticides and Cancer


▪ Why I’m concerned
▪ Exposure pathways
▪ Current Research
▪ Case studies
▪ Prevention techniques
▪ Public Health Tools
▪ Future Scope
Pesticide and Cancer

▪ PESTICIDES: Used in agriculture, forestry and households


▪ Pest control, improved yield and better quality produce.
▪ Serious health concern from prolonged exposure
▪ CANCER: Second leading cause of death in USA
▪ Despite reduction in cancer rate in recent years, top cause of death in
21 of the 50 states.
▪ IARC identified 39 active ingredients in pesticides as known or likely
human carcinogens.
Why I’m concerned

▪ 120,000 cases of cancer each year are due to pesticides


▪ Uncertainty about effects of pesticides on human health
▪ Avoidable disease
Exposure Pathways

▪ Ingestion, Inhalation and dermal pathways


▪ Operational exposure –Farmworkers and Urban pest controllers
▪ Para-occupational and environmental exposures
▪ Health risk a function of exposure and toxicity : Greater exposure to
moderately toxic pesticide riskier than little exposure to highly toxic
pesticide
Information gathering

▪ Personal medical records, disease registries, biomonitoring,


distributing questionnaires related to exposure, by conducting
observational studies
▪ Challenge of establishing a valid association
▪ Agriculture Health Study AHS findings
Current Research

▪ Epidemiological studies focused on high-risk populations of


farmworkers in developed countries.
▪ Found a relation between pesticide exposure and certain lymphomas
and sarcomas
▪ Farmers experience higher than expected levels of certain cancers
like stomach, blood stream, prostate and skin cancers
▪ Childhood cancer not fully understood but association found
between exposure and tumor, NHL and leukemia
Case studies

Lindane Glyphosate
Pesticide Cancer Prevention

▪ Preventing exposure prevents Cancer


▪ Occupational and environmental
▪ Safety equipment and clothing
▪ Safe application practices
▪ Indoor pest controllers
▪ Accidental exposure prevention
▪ Lawn care
Alternatives to Pesticides

▪ Bio-pesticides
▪ Farming techniques- crop rotation, polyculture
▪ Pest resistant crop
Public Health Tools

▪ Provide training to the most vulnerable groups


▪ Awareness about exposure
▪ Awareness converting to safety behavior?
▪ Specific Regulations
▪ Health benefits and insurance policy
▪ Farmworker demographics
▪ Funding cancer research
Conclusion and Future Scope

▪ Keep in mind the limitations of epidemiology


▪ Most studies focus on male agricultural populations- need to extend
that to female family members and children
▪ Need more data from diverse ethnicities
▪ Most studies are on farm occupational exposure
▪ Lack of data on nonagricultural pest controller
▪ Biopesticide research
▪ Genetically Modified crop
References
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3. IARC Website, link http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/
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