Women heavily exposed to the pesticide DDT during childhood are five times as likely to develop breast cancer, a new scientific study suggests. For decades, scientists have tried to determine whether ...

Women who were exposed to the highly toxic chemical dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) while they were still in the womb of their mothers were found to be more at ...

A 54-year study from the Endocrine Society is the first to directly link breast cancer risk to in utero exposure to the chemical pesticide DDT. The study, conducted by the Public Health Institute in ...

Adult daughters of women exposed to the once-common pesticide DDT during pregnancy may have an increased risk for developing breast cancer, a study suggests. Researchers followed 9,300 women born from ...

A study linking DDT exposure to a higher risk of breast cancer in women renews questions about using the pesticide, banned in the U.S., to battle malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.

(Reuters Health) - The once-common pesticide DDT has long been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. Now, research suggests that women's age at first exposure to DDT may influence when in life ...

A five-decade study of U.S. women has found that those exposed to high levels of the pesticide DDT in the womb were four times as likely to get breast cancer. The study is the first of its kind to ...

August 20, 2010 — In utero exposure to the pesticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), which is an endocrine-disrupting chemical, might increase the risk of ...

All women who were exposed to the toxic pesticide DDT under age 14 are at higher risks of breast cancer than others, a new, 60-year study finds. Oddly, if women were exposed as infants, they were most ...

Women who had been exposed to higher levels of the pesticide DDT while in utero face increased risk of breast cancer later in life than those who were exposed to lower levels, according to new ...

Women whose mothers had higher levels of DDT in their blood while pregnant were nearly four times more likely to develop breast cancer as adults, a new study finds. The report provides one of the ...