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Serum pesticide levels in patients with chiLDHOOD COLORECTAL CARCINOMA
Author(s) -
Caldwell Glyn G.,
Can Shanklin B.,
Pratt Charles B.,
Arthur Robert D.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19810801)48:3<774::aid-cncr2820480319>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , memphis , adenocarcinoma , colorectal adenocarcinoma , ulcerative colitis , family history , pesticide , oncology , cancer , gastroenterology , disease , botany , agronomy , biology
From September 1974 through November 1976, 13 adolescent patients with mucin‐producing colorectal adenocarcinoma were treated at a Memphis, Tennessee, pediatric oncology center. Ten of these children were from the rural areas of the Mississippi Delta, areas of high pesticide use. None of them had a family history of colorectal cancer, familial polyposis, or ulcerative colitis. Levels of pesticide residues, however, were not generally higher in blood samples from patients and their families than from controls.