Serum levels of Organochlorine Pesticides and Breast Cancer Risk in Iranian Women

• Published in: Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology Vol. 77; no. 4; pp. 480 - 489
• Main Authors: Paydar, Parisa, Asadikaram, Gholamreza, Fallah, Hossein, Zeynali Nejad, Hamid, Akbari, Hamed, Abolhassani, Moslem, Moazed, Vahid, Khazaeli, Payam, Heidari, Mahmoud Reza
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.11.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; blood serum; Body Mass Index; Body size; Breast cancer; breast neoplasms; Breast Neoplasms - blood; Breast Neoplasms - chemically induced; Case-Control Studies; Chromatography, Gas; DDE; DDE (pesticide); DDT; DDT (pesticide); DDT - blood; DDT - toxicity; Dichlorodiphenyl Dichloroethylene - blood; Dichlorodiphenyl Dichloroethylene - toxicity; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Etiology; Female; Gas chromatography; HCH (pesticide); Health risk assessment; Health risks; Hexachlorocyclohexane; Hexachlorocyclohexane - blood; Hexachlorocyclohexane - toxicity; Humans; Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated - blood; Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated - toxicity; Iran; lindane; Middle Aged; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Nitrous oxide; Organic compounds; Organochlorine compounds; Organochlorine pesticides; Original Paper; patients; PCB; Pesticides; Pesticides - blood; Pesticides - toxicity; Pollution; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Risk analysis; Risk Factors; Serum levels; Soil Science & Conservation; Tumors; women; Iran

Breast cancer is a multifactorial disease and its etiology is linked to multiple risk factors. There are shreds of controversial evidence that exposure to organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are important in the etiology of breast cancer. The present study aimed to determine the circulating levels of O...