Breast Cancer Cluster Blamed on Pesticides

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Monday, 12 August 2002

Women on New York's Long Island face a breast-cancer risk 30% higher than the national average. Activists blamed pesticides that farmers used to spray on potatoes and other crops, but a seven-year, $8 million government-ordered study found no link — at least to DDT (banned in 1972). The jury is still out on the pesticides now in use.
Source: Time Magazine 12.8.02