Cancer mortality among Iowa farmers: recent results, time trends, and lifestyle factors (United States). - Shows an excess of deaths for Hodgkin's disease. [Cerhan, J.R., et al. 1998. Cancer Causes Control 9(3):311-319]
Cancer risk and parental pesticide application in children of Agricultural Health Study participants - Children of farmers using pesticides show a greater than two-fold increased risk of childhood lymphoma compared with the general population. [Flower, K., et al. 2004. Environmental Health Perspectives 112:631-635]
Exposure to non-arsenic pesticides is associated with lymphoma among farmers in Spain - A case-control study in Spain finds that crop and animal farmers exposed to non-arsenic pesticides (carbamates, organophosphates, chlorinated hydrocarbons, triazines and triazoles, phenoxy herbicides, chlorophenols, dibenzodioxin, and dibenzofuran) have an increased risk of lymphoma [van Balen, E., et al. 2006. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 63:663-668]
Occupation and lymphoid malignancies: results from a French case-control study - Finds that self-declared occupational pesticide exposure is significantly associated with HL [Orsi, L, et al. 2007. J Occup Environ Med 49(12):1339-1350]
Risk of childhood cancers associated with residence in agriculturally intense areas in the United States. - Analyzing incidence data from U.S. children ages 0-14 years diagnosed with cancer between 1995 and 2001 and residence in a county with agricultural activity finds an elevated risk (OR 2.1) for HL at high agricultural activity.[Carrozza, S.E., et al. 2008. Risk of childhood cancers associated with residence in agriculturally intense areas in the United States. Environ Health Perspect 116(4):559-565]
Some occupational exposures as risk factors for malignant lymphomas. - A Swedish case-referent occupational exposure study finds a significant risk for Hodgkin lymphoma (OR 7.4) for workers exposed to phenoxy herbicides. [Persson, B., et al. 1993. Cancer 72(5):1773-1778]