© 2001 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 10, 731,
May 16, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
IN THIS ISSUE |
Five large studies of women living primarily in the northeastern United States were funded in 1993 to evaluate a possible association between the risk of breast cancer and plasma or serum levels of organochlorines. The analysis included DDE [1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene], a major metabolite of the pesticide DDT, and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), a group of industrial chemicals manufactured in the United States until the 1970s. In this issue, Laden et al. (p. 768) present their combined analysis of these studies. They did not find an association between the risk of breast
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