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Cancer: A Growing Global Health Prolem … POPs Related?

Posted by Mel on February 23rd, 2010

More and more attention is being given to the growing amount of global cancer, especially in the developing world:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/2010/02/22/Commentary-A-growing-hidden-epidemic/UPI-42871266846848/
Could it be that the decades of use of chemicals that were banned in the developing world are finally catching up with them? Pesticides such as DDT, chlordane, toxaphene, Mirex, Lindane, and Dieldrin were exported in the […]