Pesticide Exposure Linked to 150% Higher Cancer Risk in Major Study, Researchers Report A study published April 27 in Nature Health has found that individuals living in areas with heavy agricultural pesticide use face a 150% higher risk of developing cancer, according to researchers from the Institut Pasteur, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), the University of Toulouse, and the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN) in Peru. The research combined environmental monitoring, national cancer registry data from more than 150,000 patients, and molecular analysis. None of the 31 pesticide active ingredients analyzed are individually classified as…

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