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Fri, Mar 8, 13 at 0:40
| "A growing number of well-designed epidemiological and molecular studies provide substantial evidence that the pesticides used in agricultural, commercial, and home and garden applications are associated with excess cancer risk. This risk is associated both with those applying the pesticide and, under some conditions, those who are simply bystanders to the application. In this article, the epidemiological, molecular biology, and toxicological evidence emerging from recent literature assessing the link between specific pesticides and several cancers including prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, and breast cancer are integrated. Although the review is not exhaustive in its scope or depth, the literature does strongly suggest that the public health problem is real. If we are to avoid the introduction of harmful chemicals into the environment in the future, the integrated efforts of molecular biology, pesticide toxicology, and epidemiology are needed to help identify the human carcinogens and thereby improve our understanding of human carcinogenicity and reduce cancer risk." See: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21170/pdf |
Here is a link that might be useful: American Cancer Society 2013 paper
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- Posted by jacqueline3 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 9, 13 at 12:25
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| I am very, very glad that I stopped using chemical insecticide spray. I used to use a systemic called Confidor; it certainly did get rid of the aphids. But every year, "paradoxically",my roses seemed to look WORSE-flowers more chewed up, and the problem with beetles got worse every year (here in Italy we have these disgusting Oxythyrea funesta. They come out right at the roses main flush, and eat up the flowers,though at least they leave the leaves alone.)Though you only spray once a season with a systemic, I still felt scared when I did it, and wore a heavy-duty paint spray filter mask, etc. About three years ago, I had an oncological problem. I don't know if the two things were connected or not. I stopped using the chemical and tried Neem oil. It seemed to me to be every bit as effective as the chemical. Now, however, I've decided to completely stop spraying against insects (though I still do use a copper/sulphur spray against fungus).I learned from the people at Bierkreek that ,for example, if you get rid of the aphids, you wind up encouraging the thrip population (I think this was happening in my garden), and thrips do ruin the flowers. What harm , really, do aphids actually do? It is said that they "spread diseases", but what diseases, exactly, I wonder? As for the beetles, no spray is effective against them really at all. I have adapted a trapping/ screening-them- out approach now, which seems to be working much better than the futile attempts at spraying did. This has been my experience. regards, bart |
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