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Theodore Colton, ScD

JAMA. 1986;256(9):1176-1178.

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The case-control study in Kansas reported by Hoar et al¹ in this issue has importance beyond its population of agriculture workers to the highly controversial and adversarial issue of health effects associated with herbicide exposure in Vietnam. The well-designed and carefully executed Kansas study adds substantially to the cumulating body of evidence concerning the following question: Does human exposure to phenoxyacetic acid herbicides increase the risk of soft-tissue sarcomas (STS), Hodgkin's disease (HD), and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)? The findings among Kansas farmers are in accord with "no" answers to the first two malignancies and a "yes" answer to the third.

Most relevant to the Kansas study are the series of case-control investigations undertaken by Hardell and colleagues^2-4 in rural Sweden in the mid- and late 1970s. Hardell's studies found highly significant relative risks, of magnitude fivefold and sixfold, for exposure to phenoxyacid herbicides in association with STS, HD, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Boston University School of Public Health

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