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DDT’s Toxic Reach

KPFA - Against the Grain

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The Relationship Between DDT and Breast Cancer

In the 19 eighties, the 19 nineties, specifically in 19 93, a key study came out that suggested there did seem to be a link. Women who were exposed, or had higher levels of deity in their body, i should say, had a higher risk of breast cancer. To kind of take this story forward, epidemiologists over the next several decades produced conflicting evidence. One study would show a relationship between d t and bress cancer. The other one would not. And then in the two thousands, aa study came out by a researcher actually here in berkeley using what i kind of think of as archive samples. She found a really strong on if a woman was

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