Brazilian farmers frequently using
pesticides in their farm operations,
unknowingly make their children
susceptible to kidney cancer.
Recently, researchers established
that 18 per cent of Wilms' turnours
- which affect kidneys - among
Brazilian children, are due to exposure of their parents to pesticides
(American Journal ofEpidemiolop@
Vol 141).
Colin Sharpe and his colleagues
assessed active ingredients in pesticides which cause childhood kidney cancers by conducting a study on a
sample including 109 parents any 218 children.
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