DDT and Cancer

Breast Cancer and Pesticide DDT, DDE

The original DDT bibliography was developed and posted 8.08.96 by Suzanne M. Snedeker, Ph.D BCERF Research Project Leader. Selected sections were updated by Erica Allgyer in the spring of '00 as a part of an undergraduate independent study project. Other sections were updated in October and November of 2000, and February of 2001 by Dr. Snedeker and Michael Marshall, undergraduate Research Assis...

DDT/DDE and breast cancer: a meta-analysis.

The biological basis for investigating dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) exposure and breast cancer risk stems from in vitro and animal studies indicating that DDT has estrogenic properties. The objective of this study was to update a meta-analysis from 2004 which found no association between dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and breast cancer. We searched PubMed and Web of Science for...

DDT and Malaria Prevention

DDT Paradox

Hwang B-F, Lee YL, Jaakkola JJ. 2011. Air pollution and stillbirth: a population-based case–control study in Taiwan. Environ Health Perspect 119:1345–1349; http://dx.doi. org/10.1289/ehp.1003056 [Online 29 March 2011]. Strand L, Barnett A, Tong S. 2011. Methodological challenges when estimating the effects of season and seasonal exposures on birth outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology 11 (...

DDT/DDE and infant exposure.

7. Wolff MS, Toniolo PG. Environmental organochlorine exposure as a potential etiologic factor in breast cancer. Environ Health Perspect 103(suppl 7):141-145 (1995). 8. Timing of environmental exposures in breast cancer and northeast/mid-Atlantic breast cancer programs, NIEHS, 25-26 September 1996. 9. Vorhees DJ. Multimedia human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls [PhD dissertation]. Harvard...