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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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Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma)

Causes    Grouped by strength of evidence

Good Evidence

Agent Orange

chlorophenols

dioxins / TCDD

phenoxyacetic herbicides

Limited Evidence

1,1-dichloroethane

aldrin

creosotes

DDT/DDE

ethylene oxide

lindane

organochlorine pesticides

pesticides

solvents

trichloroethylene (TCE)

Notes

^ - Group 2B human carcinogen (IARC). In addition to groups or individual pesticides listed, pesticide exposure in applicators, manufacturers and agricultural workers has been associated with Hodgkin's lymphoma. In these situations, the individual is exposed to mixtures of pesticides or different pesticides at different times and a correlation between an individual pesticide and disease can not be made.