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Our Stolen Future: The epidemiology of breast cancer
Hormones and endocrine disruptors. Because of the established role of life-time estrogen levels as a breast ... a small increase in risk. Studies of organochlorines show contradictory results. Older studies of PCBs and DDE found higher levels in breast-cancer patients than controls, but newer, larger studies contradict ...
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Our Stolen Future: Adult PCB and DDE not associated with rise in breast cancer risk
New England Journal of Medicine 337:1253-8. This study indicates that PCBs and DDE contamination levels in adult women are not associated with increased risk of breast cancer. If ... . The question is how to interpret this result. At one level it is very positive and reassuring. Taken at face value, women with higher levels of these two organochlorine contaminants during adulthood ...
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Our Stolen Future: A list of endocrine-disrupting compounds
Krishnan and Safe 1993 Klinge et al. 1999 Octachlorostyrene Thyroid Sandan et al. 2000 PBBs Estrogen/ Thyroid Bahn et al. 1980 Henderson et al. 1995 PCBs (in order of ... et al. 1994 Lascombe et al. 2000 Kupfer et al. 1980 Rajapakse et al. 2001 DDT Metabolite, p,p'-DDE Androgen Inhibits androgen binding to the androgen receptor, androgen-induced transcriptional activity, ...
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EHP: Volume 109, Number 7 July 2001
Marina Pollán p. 721 [HTML] [ PDF] Availability of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and Lindane for Uptake by Intestinal Caco-2 Cells Agnes G. Oomen, Johannes Tolls, Maaike Kruidenier, Sieto S. D. Bosgra, ... [ PDF] Modulatory Effects of Neonatal Exposure to TCDD, or a Mixture of PCBs, p,p´-DDT, and p-p´-DDE, on Methylnitrosourea-Induced Mammary Tumor Development in the Rat Daniel Desaulniers, ...
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People of Color Battle Toxics in Communities Across the U.S.
Sampling results were finally publicized this past week showing the dredging cut into buried layers with more than 280 ppm PCBs and left them exposed to the river currents. 50 ppm PCBs are considered ... The relative risk (RR) for 4- to 7- month-old infants in the highest tertile of p,p-DDE exposure as compared to infants in the lowest tertile was 1.87 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1. ...
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Our Great Lakes -
PCBs, DDE (a residue of the pesticide DDT), and the heavy metals lead and mercury. Although DDT was banned in North America ... also experienced a population surge around the Great Lakes, mainly because of lower pollution levels and more available habitat. The phenomenal increase in the cormorant population provides an important lesson about ...
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ReSource - Weekly Musings: Correspondence on Sludge
DDT, DDD, DDE, dieldrin, aldrin, endrin, chlordane, heptachlor, lindane, mirex, kepone, 2,4,5-T, and 2,4-D]; carcinogenic polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons [PAHs]; heavy metals [ ... chain, it should not be a great surprise that all of us have such chemicals as PCBs and dioxins in our bodies for the same type of reason. Succeeding in preventing sewage sludge ...
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The rice oil contained 100 parts per million (ppm) PCBs and 0.1 ppm PCDFs [polychlorinated dibenzofurans, a potent dioxin-like poison].[4] A new ... many bird species,[11] but humans have been slow to get the message. Petrochemical corporations and agricultural giants continually dump billions of pounds of endocrine-disrupting toxins into the environment each ...
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Ecology's PBT Initiative
Examples of PBTs include methylmercury, PCBs, DDT and dioxin. These types of toxic chemicals raise special challenges for ... List), Establishes procedures for developing Chemical Action Plans (CAPs), Lays out a process to prioritize and schedule future CAPs. CAPs (see below) are the main tools used to reduce or remove ...
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Our Stolen Future: PCBs impair disease resistance in Inuit children
(OC) levels in breast milk shortly after birth and testing whether OCs are associated with rates of inner ear infections early in life. They ... the Inuit infants susceptibility to ear infections. The associations between inner ear and exposures were most consistent for DDE and HCB, but concentrations of the OCs in general were highly correlated ...
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