DDT and Breast Cancer Revisited

摘要

Author Rachel Carson made the initial claim in her 1962 best-seller Silent Spring.Subsequent studies,including a meta-analysis published in EHP [Lopez-Cervantes et al.112:207-214],downplayed the connection.Now researchers have found new evidence potentially linking DDT with breast cancer in women [EHP 115:1406-1414;Cohn et al].The findings come at a time when DDT is once again being promoted as a tool to combat malaria.