Date Available
10-24-2022
Year of Publication
2022
Document Type
Graduate Capstone Project
Degree Name
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.)
College
Public Health
Faculty
Steven Browning
Faculty
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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