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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Cancer Control Soc.
Sec. Social Determinants in Cancer
Volume 2 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fcacs.2024.1368086

Comprehensive assessment of pesticide usage patterns and increased cancer risk

Provisionally accepted
Jacob Gerken Jacob Gerken 1Gear T. Vincent Gear T. Vincent 2Demi Zapata Demi Zapata 1Ileana G. Barron Ileana G. Barron 3Isain Zapata Isain Zapata 1*
  • 1 Rocky Vista University, Parker, Colorado, United States
  • 2 Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, United States
  • 3 Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, United States

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    Pesticides are an essential feature of modern-day agriculture that adds to the list of factors that increase cancer risk. Our study aims to evaluate comprehensibly this relationship through a population-based approach that considers confounding variables such as county-specific rates of smoking, socioeconomic vulnerability, and agricultural land. We achieved our goal with the implementation of latent class pesticide usage patterns that were further modeled among covariates to evaluate their associations to cancer risk. Our findings demonstrated an association between pesticide usage and increased incidence of leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, bladder, colon, lung, pancreatic, cancers, and all cancers combined that are comparable to smoking for some cancer types. Through our comprehensive analysis and unique approach, our study emphasizes the importance of a holistic assessment of the risks of pesticide usage for communities, which may be used to impact future policies regarding pesticides.

    Keywords: Fungicides, Insecticides, SVI, LCA, fungicides, Insecticides

    Received: 09 Jan 2024; Accepted: 05 Jun 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Gerken, Vincent, Zapata, Barron and Zapata. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Isain Zapata, Rocky Vista University, Parker, 80134, Colorado, United States

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