Pesticides Linked with Prostate Cancer in Farmers

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The pesticides described in this article are not limited to use by farms and farmers. They are also found in a wide array of products used in and around the home and for insect control. Pesticides include insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, disinfectants, algaecides, anti-bacterial soaps, slimicides, and many more.

Here is a link to EPA's web site on anti-microbial products which include anti-bacterial soaps:

http://www.epa.gov/oppad001/ad_info.htm

Also, please note the last sentence in the article says that, " ...some evidence suggests that men who eat lots of red meat and animal fat have a higher risk. "

This observation has been made many times, but there is almost NO discussion about the fact that animal feed is impregnated with pesticides. Many pesticides store in fat so it is not difficult to realize that eating meat that is not organically raised (fed products free of pesticides, no hormones, minimal anti-biotics, etc.) that we continue to add chemicals to our own body burden of pollutants.

See link to EPA web site showing the pesticides that are routinely added to most commercially available animal feeds:

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_99/40cfr186_99.html

The article below of farmers/prostate cancer has links. If you wish to get to them you must click on the URL--otherwise, the article is copy and pasted below. A. Hotz

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Pesticides Linked with Prostate Cancer in Farmers

Thu May 1, 1:57 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Farmers who use certain pesticides seem to have a higher-than-average risk of prostate cancer (news - web sites), U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.

The researchers, who published their study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, confirmed other findings that show farmers have an unusually high risk of prostate cancer.

" Associations between pesticide use and prostate cancer risk among the farm population have been seen in previous studies; farming is the most consistent occupational risk factor for prostate cancer, " Alavanja of the National Cancer Institute (news - web sites) (NCI), who helped lead the study, said in a statement.

Researchers at NCI and at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites) studied 55,332 farmers and nursery workers who worked with pesticides.

Between 1993 and 1999, 566 new prostate cancers developed among the men, compared to 495 that would normally be expected in Iowa and North Carolina, the two states studied.

The risk of developing prostate cancer was 14 percent greater for the pesticide applicators compared to the general population.

One pesticide, methyl bromide, increased the risk of prostate cancer in all men.

Six others raised the risk in men with a family history of prostate cancer. They are chlorpyrifos, coumaphos, fonofos, phorate, permethrin and butylate.

More than 220,000 U.S. men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society (news - web sites), and 30,000 will die of it.

The biggest risk factors for prostate cancer are age and family history. African-American men have higher rates of prostate cancer, and some evidence suggests that men who eat lots of red meat and animal fat have a higher risk.

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