Agricultural pesticide use and childhood cancer in California. - Finds an elevated risk for leukemia associated with nearby agricultural applications of organochlorines and organophosphates during pregnancy (metam sodium OR 2.05 and dicofol OR 1.83)[Reynolds, P, et al. 2005. Epidemiology 16(1):93-100]
Association between prenatal pesticide exposures and the generation of leukemia-associated T(8;21) - Analyzing umbilical cord blood samples of infants whose meconium sample detected the pesticide propoxur, finds a two-fold increase incidence of childhood acute myeloid leukemia.[Lafiura, K.M., et al. 2007. Pediatr Blood Cancer 48(5):624-628]
Child and maternal household chemical exposure and the risk of acute leukemia in children with Down's syndrome: a report from the Children's Oncology Group. - [Alderton, L.E., et al. 2006. American Journal of Epidemiology 164(3):212-221]
Childhood cancer and agricultural pesticide use: an ecologic study in California. - A more recent ecological study in California correlating pesticide use data and leukemia finds a statistically significant elevated risk to propargite at the highest usage level. [Reynolds, P., et al. 2002. Environmental Health Perspectives 110(3):319-324]
Childhood Leukemia and Parent’s Occupational and Home Exposures - Lowengart, R., et al. 1987; Journal of the National Cancer Institute; 79:39.
Home pesticide use and childhood cancer: A case-control study - Finds home use of pest strips containing dichlorvos is linked to childhood leukemia. [Leiss, J., et al. 1995. American Journal of Public Health 85:249-252]
In Utero Pesticide Exposure and Leukemia in Brazilian Children < 2 Years of Age - Jeniffer Dantas Ferreira,1 Arnaldo Cézar Couto,1 Maria S. Pombo-de-Oliveira,2 Sergio Koifman,1 and the Brazilian Collaborative Study Group of Infant Acute Leukemia; Environ Health Perspect 121:269–275 (2013).
Parental occupational exposure to pesticides and the risk of childhood leukemia in Costa Rica. - Finds parental occupational exposure to pesticides increases the risk of childhood leukemia. [Monge, P., et al. 2007. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 33(4):293-303]
Residential proximity to agricultural pesticide applications and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. - Shows an elevated risk of childhood ALL associated with moderate exposure, but not high exposure, to pesticides classified as organophosphates, chlorophenoxy herbicides, and triazines, and with agricultural pesticides used as insecticides or fumigants. [Rull, R.P., et al. 2009. Environ Res 109(7):891-9]