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A book worth dipping into is
'Living Downstream, An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the 'Environment'
by Sandra Steingraber,
This was published by in 1997 by Addison-Wesley.
Although she covers all types of cancer there are useful references to lymphomas.
She, too, refers to clusters in farming areas and the use of herbicides and insecticides and mentions organophosphates including Agent Orange to which so many Vietnam veterans were exposed.
She points out that the heavy use of herbicides and insecticides in the home and garden have played a malignant role in the increase of lymphomas.
Also she highlights the dangers of substances used in certain industries mentioning benzene, perchloroethylene used in dry-cleaning and PCBs
She provides an extensive indexed reading list but unfortunately no reference to on-line sources. |
Is the use of herbicides and insecticides safe, if the company says so?
How careful are chemical companies, world wide? *
Should towns be spraying herbicides, insecticides
in children's play parks? *
Learn to recognize the symptoms of chemical overexposure *
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