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Cancer Causing Pesticides in Food

Pesticides can be grouped according to the types of pests which they kill :

Insecticides - insects

Herbicides - plants

Rodenticides - rodents (rats and mice)

Bactericides - bacteria

Fungicides - fungi

Larvicides - larvae

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Pesticides is a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals.

“Pesticides have been linked to a wide range of human health hazards, ranging from short-term impacts such as headaches and nausea to chronic impacts like cancer, reproductive harm, and endocrine disruption” (“The Problems with Pesticides”).

What Is Cancer?

Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancer develops when the body’s normal control mechanism stops working. Old cells do not die and cells grow out of control, forming new, abnormal cells (Cancer Treatment Centers of America)

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Pesticides can cause many types of cancer in humans. Some of the most prevalent forms include leukemia, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, brain, bone, breast, ovarian, prostate, testicular and liver cancers. In February 2009, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry published a study that found that children who live in homes where their parents use pesticides are twice as likely to develop brain cancer versus those that live in residences in which no pesticides are used.

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The link between pesticides and cancer has long been a concern. While agriculture has traditionally been tied to pesticide-related illnesses, 19 of 30 commonly used lawn pesticides and 28 of 40 commonly used school pesticides are linked to cancer. Even with the growing body of evidence linking environmental exposures to cancer in recent years, a report released May 6, 2010 by the President’s Cancer Panel finds that the true burden of environmentally-induced cancer is greatly underestimated (Beyond Pesticides)

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References -

Types of pesticides and how they enter animals and plants (2010, November). In Australian Government Department of Health . Retrieved November 21, 2016.

Pesticide-Induced Diseases: Cancer (n.d.). In beyondpesticides.org. 1.Jump up ^ "7 Types of pesticides and how they enter animals and plants". The Department of Health. Retrieved http://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/ohp-enhealth-manual-atsi-cnt-l~ohp-enhealth-manual-atsi-cnt-l-ch5~ohp-enhealth-manual-atsi-cnt-l-ch5.7. Check date values in: |access-date= (help) 2.Jump up ^ "Cancer". Retrieved http://www.cancercenter.com/what-is-cancer/. Check date values in: |access-date= (help) 3.Jump up ^ "The Problem with Pesticides". Retrieved http://www.toxicsaction.org/problems-and-solutions/pesticides. Check date values in: |access-date= (help) 4.Jump up ^ "Pesticide-Induced Diseases: Cancer". Retrieved http://www.beyondpesticides.org/resources/pesticide-induced-diseases-database/cancer. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)