Researchers find no link between atrazine use and cancer overall among pesticide applicators

From Agra-Net:

Relying on data from the Agricultural Health Study, federal government researchers have found no association between atrazine use and cancer overall among pesticide applicators, although they did find limited evidence of an association between use of the herbicide and thyroid and ovarian cancer — neither of which were statistically significant.

This latest report, published online May 27 ahead of print in Environmental Health Perspectives, updates a previous analysis — which found non-statistically significant associations among atrazine use and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and lung and bladder cancer — with six additional years of cancer incidence and follow-up data.

You can read more about this research on the Environmental Health Perspectives website.