Common household pesticides linked to childhood cancer cases in Washington area
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 09:58
in Health & Medicine
A new study by researchers at the Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center finds a higher level of common household pesticides in the urine of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a cancer that develops most commonly between three and seven years of age. The findings are published in the August issue of the journal Therapeutic Drug Monitoring.