The relationship between exposure to pesticides and the occurrence of lymphoid neoplasm

الملخص EN

Background : The etiology of malignant lymphoma is still largely unknown.

This study determines the relationship between exposure to pesticides and the occurrence of lymphoid neoplasms in Shiraz, Southern Iran.

Methods : Between 2007 and 2008, in a case control study conducted in Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Southern Iran, 200 subjects diagnosed with lymphoma according to the World Health Organization (WHO) classificatio were enrolled.

Controls (n = 200) were frequency matched to the cases by sex, age, and center.

Subjects who were a farmer were compared with all other occupations.

Results : Out of the 200 cases that were diagnosed as lymphoid neoplasms, 100 were non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 54 Hodgkin's lymphoma and 46 multiple myeloma.

Seventy two percent of the NHL's were of the B-cell type.

15 % of the T-cell type and the rest were not classified.

Furthermore, subjects exposed to pesticides were at an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and MM, but not Hodgkin lymphoma.

Conclusion : Risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and MM was highest for exposure to pesticides, among them, insecticide's risk was confirmed.