Workplace exposure to the common pesticide diazinon could be responsible for an increase the risk of lung cancer and possibly other cancers. Findings from the long-running US government-sponsored Agricultural Health Study “found evidence of an association of lung cancer and leukaemia risk with increasing lifetime exposure days to diazinon,” said Dr Michael CR Alavanja from the National Cancer Institute and colleagues, reporting in the 1 December 2005 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Laura E Beane Freeman, Matthew R Bonner, Aaron Blair and others. Cancer incidence among male pesticide applicators in the Agricultural Health Study cohort exposed to diazinon, American Journal of Epidemiology Volume 162, Number 11 Pp. 1070-1079, 2005. Agricultural Health Study. Risks 235.