The authors suggest there is a real public health problem with pesticides linked to prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphomas, leukaemia, multiple myeloma, and breast cancer. The report notes: “Although the review is not exhaustive in its scope or depth, the literature does strongly suggest that the public health problem is real. If we are to avoid the introduction of harmful chemicals into the environment in the future, the integrated efforts of molecular biology, pesticide toxicology, and epidemiology are needed to help identify the human carcinogens and thereby improve our understanding of human carcinogenicity and reduce cancer risk.”

Michael Alavanja, Matthew Ross, and Matthew Bonner. Increased cancer burden among pesticide applicators and others due to pesticide exposure. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, volume 63.2, pages 120-142, March-April 2013.