Self-reported residential pesticide use and survival after breast cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Previous investigations found elevated mortality after breast cancer in association with biomarkers of persistent organochlorine pesticides in non-occupationally exposed women. We hypothesized that lifetime residential pesticide use, which includes persistent and non-persistent pesticides, would also be associated with increased mortality after breast cancer.

Methods

A population-based cohort of 1505 women with invasive or in situ breast cancer was interviewed in 1996-1997, shortly after diagnosis, about pre-diagnostic lifetime residential pesticide use. Participants were followed for mortality through 2014 (595 deaths from any cause and 236 from breast cancer, after 17.6 years of follow-up). Pesticides were examined as 15 individual categories; a group of seven

SUBMITTER: Niehoff NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6732244 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature