Association between pesticide exposure and childhood leukaemia: a systematic literature review of epidemiological studies

• Main Authors: Sidek Ahmad, Zulkhairul Naim, Che Hasan, Muhammad Kamil
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Islamic University Malaysia 2020
• Subjects: RA Public aspects of medicine; RA644.3 Public Health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine - Chronic and Noninfectious Diseases and Public Health; RJ Pediatrics; RT Nursing
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/82601/7/82601_Association%20between%20pesticide%20exposure.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/82601/; https://journals.iium.edu.my/ijcs/index.php/ijcs/article/view/137
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Introduction: Cancer is the leading cause of death for children and adolescents globally with 300,000 children aged 0-19 are diagnosed with cancer every year, mainly leukaemia, lymphomas and brain cancers. Like other causes of cancer, the difficulty arises because of multi-factorial aetiologies inv...