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Toxicant and Disease Database

The CHE Toxicant and Disease Database is a searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions. Diseases and or toxicants can be viewed by utilizing the search options below. See a full description of the database and our methodology.

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phenoxyacetic herbicides

Diseases linked to this toxicant    Grouped by strength of evidence

Strong Evidence

Chloracne

Good Evidence

Adult-onset leukemias

Fetotoxicity (miscarriage / spontaneous abortion, stillbirth)

Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma)

Lymphoma (non-Hodgkin's)

Multiple myeloma

Peripheral neuropathy

Porphyria (toxic)

Soft tissue sarcomas

Stomach cancer

Limited Evidence

Autoimmune antibodies (positive ANA, anti-DNA, RF, etc.)

Brain cancer - childhood

Breast cancer

Colorectal cancer

Fetotoxicity (miscarriage / spontaneous abortion, stillbirth)

Hepatocellular cancer (liver cancer)

Hypertension (high blood pressure)

Immune suppression

Low birth weight / small for gestational age / intra-uterine growth retardation

Lung cancer

Preterm delivery

Prostate cancer

Thyroid cancer

References for our 2011 disease list

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Carpenter DO, Arcaro K, Spink DC. Understanding the human health effects of chemical mixtures. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002;110(suppl 1):25-42.

Hardell L, Eriksson M, Nordstrom M. Exposure to pesticides as risk factor for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and hairy cell leukemia: pooled analysis of two Swedish case-control studies. Leukemia & Lymphoma. 2002 May;43(5):1043-9.

Hardell L, Lindström G, van Bavel B, Fredrikson M, Liljegren G. Some aspects of the etiology of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Environmental Health Perspectives. 1998 Apr;106(Suppl 2):679-681.

Klaassen CD, Ed. Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 6th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill 2001.

LaDou J, Ed. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 3rd Edition. New York: Lange Medical/McGraw-Hill Company, 2004.

Rom WM. Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 3rd Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, 1998.