New Study Finds Granddaughters of People Exposed to DDT Have Increased Risk of Cancer

in #cancer4 years ago

A newly published study concluded that exposure to the toxin DDT increased the breast cancer risk in the granddaughters of exposed women.

DDT, or Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, was developed in the 1940s to fight malaria and typhus.

Monsanto was one of the few companies manufacturing DDT.

https://www.courthousenews.com/ddt-exposure-linked-to-cancer-risk-two-generations-later/

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