What is the correlation between pesticides, herbicides, and developing NHL?

Submitted by NurseOwens Sat 08/06/2011

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Great question. The only

Submitted by Ross Bonander on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 16:04.

Great question. The only 'evidence' supporting pesticides etc as carcinogenic and as causes of NHL come from epidemiological studies and pre-clinical trials involving massive doses of certain chemicals applied to lab rats.

Last year The President's Cancer Panel published a report on the association of some chemicals and certain cancers, you can read the NHL-associated ones at this link, Environmental and Occupational links with Lymphomas, and at the top of that blog entry is a link to the full Panel report.

I would like to know if a

Submitted by NurseOwens on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 15:43.

I would like to know if a study has ever been done regarding athletes who have performed on the "preen and geen" lawns that have been treated with pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides and the statisitical findings of those that have developed the "cancers" that are listed specifically NHL.

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