{"id":3149,"date":"2021-05-13T05:01:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2021-05-13T05:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:01:55","slug":"pesticide-exposure-linked-to-increased-risk-for-thyroid-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/pesticide-exposure-linked-to-increased-risk-for-thyroid-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesticide Exposure Linked to Increased Risk for Thyroid Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;According to an investigation done on male pesticide applicators, exposure to pesticides such as metalaxyl and lindane was associated with an increased risk for thyroid cancer&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Many pesticides are known to have thyroid-disrupting properties. However, few studies have evaluated the association between specific pesticide ingredients and risk of thyroid cancer. We investigated self-reported pesticide use and incident thyroid cancer in the Agricultural Health Study (AHS), a large cohort of occupationally-exposed male pesticide applicators,&#8217; explained Catherine C. Lerro, PhD, MPH, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AHS prospective cohort consists of licensed pesticide applicators from Iowa and North Carolina; participants reported the use of 50 pesticides. Cox regression was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% CI in incident thyroid cases (n = 85) among male participants&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oncnet.com\/news\/pesticide-exposure-linked-increased-risk-thyroid-cancer\">Oncology Learning Network<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;According to an investigation done on male pesticide applicators, exposure to pesticides such as metalaxyl and lindane was associated with an increased risk for thyroid cancer&#8230; &#8216;Many pesticides are known to have thyroid-disrupting properties. However, few studies have evaluated the association between specific pesticide ingredients and risk of thyroid cancer. We investigated self-reported pesticide use &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NPA","author_link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/author\/moore\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}