Year of Publication
2022
College
Public Health
Date Available
10-24-2022
Degree Name
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.)
Committee Member
Jay Christian
Advisor
Steven Browning
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Wayne Sanderson
Abstract
Glyphosate is currently the most widely used herbicide in the world. Initially thought to be non-carcinogenic in humans, in 2015 glyphosate was classified as a “probable carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer due to several small epidemiological studies indicating a link between the pesticide and hematologic cancers, especially non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). The current work is an ecological study using counties in Kentucky, Arkansas, and Iowa to compare glyphosate usage to NHL incidence using a multivariate Poisson regression. We found no significant correlation between glyphosate use and NHL incidence, though caution should be taken to draw significance from a population-level study. Future work should revisit large cohort studies to further investigate this potential link.
Recommended Citation
Corlett, Dexter and Browning, Steven R., "AN ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF GLYPHOSATE USE AND NON-HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA" (2022). Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.). 353.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cph_etds/353
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