2010
President’s Cancer Panel Says Burden of Environmentally Induced Cancer Greatly Underestimated (Beyond Pesticides, May 11, 2010. Posted in Agriculture, Cancer, Chemicals, Disease/Health Effects, Farmworkers) The Panel’s report: Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now.
"Part Two of the report focuses on sources and types of environmental contaminants, and its second chapter focuses specifically on agricultural sources of exposure... Approximately 40 chemicals classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as known, probable, or possible human carcinogens, are used in EPA-registered pesticides now on the market.” The Panel notes that the pesticide tolerances, the allowable limit on food, have been criticized by environmentalists as being inadequate and unduly influenced by industry." " In addition, the report finds that health care providers often fail to consider occupational and environmental factors when diagnosing patient illness."
April SKIN- Pesticide use and cutaneous melanoma in pesticide applicators in the Agricultural Heath Study Significant associations were seen between cutaneous melanoma and maneb/mancozeb, parathion, and carbaryl. Other associations with benomyl and ever use of arsenical pesticides were also suggested.
2009
May Pesticide legislation in SK. Action site of theCanadian Cancer Society - SK: send a letter to your MLA, write a letter to the editor, and/or tell a friend. Also link to CCS facebook site to help spread the message and order a "No pesticides" lawn sign or pin. www.cancer.ca/sk/takeaction
April BC Health and Environmental Powerhouses Call for Cosmetic Pesticide Ban as Election Campaign Ramps Up
2008
SK Residents support pesticide bylaws. ‘Nearly 7 out of 10 Saskatchewan residents (69%) believe that pesticides pose a threat totheir health and would support a law phasing out pesticides used to beautify lawns and gardens.’ says a Canadian Cancer Society-SK (CCS-SK) sponsored Ipsos Reid poll. CCS-Sk report on environmental carcinogens in Saskatchewan deals specifically with tobacco, second hand smoke, cosmetic use of pesticides and community right to know, and product labeling.
Group wants to weed out pesticide use in Sask (SNAP) Regina Leader Post article
* Canadian Cancer Statistics from the Canadian Cancer Society. Browse the left side.
* Cancer Smart Consumer Guide from the Labour Environmental Alliance Society, Vancouver B.C. www.leas.ca/
Pesticides are covered in one whole chapter plus in the chapter on foods.
* Cancer society says its research supports ban on cosmetic pesticide use
*Identifying agents of cancer statement from the Canadian Cancer Society
"We agree with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) that about 80 per cent of cancers are linked to environmental factors such as exposure to chemicals at home and in the workplace, as well as tobacco smoke, obesity, smoking and inactivity "
Links between individual pesticides and cancer or pesticides and individual cancers
2009
Residential Pesticide Exposure Blamed for Chilcren Brain Cancers
Crop herbicide imazethapyr may cause bladder and colon cancer
2008
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Linked to Herbicides in Two New Studies