Household pesticides and risk of pediatric brain tumors

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1214-1220

  Pogoda, Janice M ^a   Preston Martin, Susan ^b  

^a Statology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasms; Childhood neoplasms; Environmental carcinogens; Flea control; Insecticides; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLEA; FOLLOW UP; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; ISOPTERA; PHTHIRAPTERA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 0031439221     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.971051214     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Blair A, Malker H, Cantor KP, Burmeister L, Wiklund K. Cancer among farmers: a review. Scand J Work Environ Health 11:397-407 (1985).
2. Thomas TL, Waxweiler RJ. Brain tumors and occupational risk factors: a review. Scand J Work Environ Health 12:1-15 (1986).
3. Magnani C, Coggon D, Osmond C, Acheson ED. Occupation and five cancers: a case-control study using death certificates. Br J Ind Med 44:769-776 (1987).
4. Musicco M, Sant M, Molinari S, Filippini G, Gatta G, Berrino F, A case-control study of brain gliomas and occupational exposure to chemical carcinogens: the risk to farmers. Am J Epidemiol 128:778-785 (1988).
5. Speers MA, Dobbins JG, Miller VS. Occupational exposures and brain cancer mortality: a preliminary study of east Texas residents. Am J Ind Med 13:629-638 (1988).
6. Reif JS, Pearce N, Fraser J. Occupational risks for brain cancer: a New Zealand cancer registry-based study. J Occup Med 31:863-867 (1989).
7. Brownson RC, Reif JS, Chang JC, Davis JR, An analysis of occupational risks for brain cancer. Am J Public Health 80:169-172 (1990).
8. Demers PA, Vaughan TL, Schommer RR. Occupation, socioeconomic status, and brain tumor mortality: a death certificate-based case-control study. J Occup Med 33:1001-1006 (1991).
9. Daly L, Herity B, Bourke GJ. An investigation of brain tumours and other malignancies in an agricultural research institute. Occup Environ Med 51:295-298 (1994).
10. Blair A, Grauman DJ, Lubin JH, Fraumeni JF Jr. Lung cancer and other causes of death among licensed pesticide applicators. J Natl Cancer Inst 71:31-37 (1983).
11. Wiklund K, Dich J, Holm LE, Eklund G. Risk of cancer in pesticide applicators in Swedish agriculture. Br J Ind Med 46:809-814 (1989).
12. Doe JE, Paddle GM. The evaluation of carcinogenic risk to humans: occupational exposures in the spraying and application of insecticides. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 19:297-308 (1994).
13. Gold E, Gordis L, Tonascia J, Szklo M. Risk factors for brain tumors in children. Am J Epidemiol 109:309-319 (1979).
14. Preston-Martin S, Yu MC, Benton B, Henderson BE. N-Nitroso compounds and childhood brain tumors: a case-control study. Cancer Res 42:5240-5245 (1982).
15. Howe GR, Burch JD, Chiarelli AM, Risch HA, Choi BCK. An exploratory case-control study of brain tumors in children. Cancer Res 49:4349-4352 (1989).
16. Davis JR, Brownson RC, Garcia R, Bentz BJ, Turner A. Family pesticide use and childhood brain cancer. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 24:87-92 (1993).
17. Cordier S, Iglesias MJ, Le Goaster C, Guyot MM, Mandereau L, Hemon D, Incidence and risk factors for childhood brain tumors in the Ile de France. Int J Cancer 59:776-782 (1994).
18. Bunin GR, Buckley JD, Boesel CP, Rorke LB, Meadows AT, Risk factors for astrocytic glioma and primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the brain in young children: a report from the Children's Cancer Group. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 3:197-204 (1994).
19. McCredie M, Maisonneuve P, Boyle P. Antenatal risk factors for malignant brain tumours in New South Wales children. Int J Cancer 56:6-10 (1994).
20. McCredie M, Maisonneuve P, Boyle P, Perinatal and early postnatal risk factors for malignant brain tumours in New South Wales children. Int J Cancer 56:11-15 (1994).
21. Kuijten RR, Bunin GR, Mass CC, Meadows AT. Gestational and familial risk factors for childhood astrocytoma: results of a case-control study. Cancer Res 50:2608-2612 (1990).
22. Sinks TH Jr. N-Nitroso compounds, pesticides, and parental exposures in the workplace as risk factors for childhood brain cancer: a case-control study. Diss Abstr Int 46:1888B (1985).
23. Leiss JK, Saviez DA. Home pesticide use and childhood cancer: a case-control study. Am J Publ Health 85:249-252 (1995).
24. Ivankovic S, Preussmann R. Trasplazentare Erzeugung maligner Tumoren. Naturwissenschaften 57:460 (1970).
25. Preston-Martin S, Pogoda JM, Mueller BA, Holly EA, Lijinsky W, Davis RL. Maternal consumption of cured meats and vitamins in relation to pediatric brain tumors. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 5:599-605 (1996).
26. International Classification of Diseases-Oncology. Geneva:-World Health Organization, 1976.
27. Hartge P, Brinton LA, Rosenthal JF, Cahill JI, Hoover RN, Waksberg J. Random digit dialing in selecting a population-based control group. Am J Epidemiol 120:825-833 (1984).
28. Preston-Martin S, Navidi W, Thomas D, Lee P, Bowman J, Pogoda J. Los Angeles study of residential magnetic fields and childhood brain tumors. Am J Epidemiol 143:105-119 (1996).
29. Breslow NE, Day NE, Statistical Methods in Cancer Research. Volume 1 - The Analysis of Case-Control Studies. Lyon:International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1980.
30. Hollingshead A. Two factor index of social position. New Haven, CT, 1957.
31. National Research Council Committee on Nitrite and Alternative Curing Agents in Food. The Health Effects of Nitrate, Nitrite, and N-Nitroso Compounds. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1981.
32. California EPA Department of Pesticide Regulation. USEPA/OPP's Database of Pesticide Products, http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/ docs/epa/m2.htm (13 Feb 1997).
33. Bledsoe B, Fadok VA, Bledsoe ME. Current therapy and new developments in indoor flea control. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 18:415-422 (1982).
34. Chanda SM, Pope CN. Neurochemical and neurobehavioral effects of repeated gestational exposure to chlorpyrifos in maternal and developing rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 53:771-776 (1996).
35. U.S. EPA. EPA Questions & Answers. Chlorpyrifos. Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (7506C). Washington, DC:U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997.
36. Eisenbrand G, Ungerer O, Preussmann R. Formation of N-nitroso compounds from agricultural chemicals and nitrite. In: N-Nitroso Compounds in the Environment (Bogovski P, Walker EA, eds). IARC Scientific Publication No. 9. Lyon:Imernational Agency for Research on Cancer, 1975;71-74.
37. Preussmann R, Eisenbrand G, Schmahl D. Carcinogenicity testing of low doses of nitrosopyrrolidine and of nitrosobenzthiazuron and nitrosocarbaryl in rats. In: Environmental N-Nitroso Compounds. Analysis and Formation (Walker EA, Bogovski P, Griciute L, eds). IARC Scientific Publications No. 14. Lyon: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1976:429-433.
38. Lijinsky W, Winter C. Skin tumors induced by painting nitrosoalkylureas on mouse skin. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 102:13-20 (1981).
39. Deutsch-Wenzel RP, Brune H, Grimmer G, Misfeld J. Local application to mouse skin as a carcinogen specific test system for non-volatile nitroso compounds. Cancer Lett 29:85-92 (1985).
40. Magee PN, Montesano R, Preussmann R. & N-Nitroso compounds and related carcinogens. In: Chemical Carcinogens (Searle ED, ed). Washington, DC:American Chemical Society, 1976.
41. Lijinsky W. Chemisty and Biology of N-Nitroso Compounds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
42. Grossman J. Focus: What's hiding under the J sink: dangers of household pesticides. Environ Health Perspect 103:550-554 (1995).