{"id":39019,"date":"2025-07-14T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=39019"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:47:13","slug":"in-call-for-eliminating-cancer-causing-pesticides-group-says-they-are-not-needed-for-land-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2025\/07\/in-call-for-eliminating-cancer-causing-pesticides-group-says-they-are-not-needed-for-land-management\/","title":{"rendered":"In Call for Eliminating Cancer Causing Pesticides, Group Says They Are Not Needed for Land Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, July 14, 2025) With the rise in early onset cancer<\/a> rates and mortality for breast, pancreatic, and gastric cancers, a wide and growing body of science<\/a> linking pesticides to cancer, and associations between childhood cancer<\/a> and pesticides, Beyond Pesticides is urging nationwide efforts to eliminate the use of cancer causing pesticides<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Peter Hopewood, MD, FACS, writing in a bulletin<\/a>\u00a0in the American College of Surgeons says, \u201cThe coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been in the healthcare spotlight since 2019, but the reality is that heart disease and cancer killed more people than COVID-19 in 2020 . . . and were our nation’s leading causes of death for decades before that. Among Americans younger than 85 years of age, cancer remains the leading cause of death.\u201d Dr. Hopewood is convinced that \u201ccancer has been an ongoing pandemic since life expectancy increased during the 20th century.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1985, Imperial Chemical Industries and the American Cancer Society declared October \u201cBreast Cancer Awareness Month<\/a>\u201d as part of a campaign to promote\u00a0mammograms<\/a>\u00a0for the early\u00a0detection<\/a>\u00a0of breast cancer. Unfortunately, most of us are all too\u00a0aware<\/a>\u00a0of breast cancer. Detection and treatment of cancers do not solve the problem. A\u00a0preventive<\/a> approach is needed, not just awareness. Barbara Brenner, activist and executive director of Breast Cancer Action (BCA) in San Francisco, asks, \u201cThere is a value to awareness, but awareness of what, and to what end?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides’\u00a0Pesticide-Induced Disease Database<\/a> tracks the independent peer- reviewed literature on cancer and other adverse health effects. \u00a0One recent study<\/a>\u00a0finds that the cancer risk posed by pesticides rivals that of smoking.\u00a0A recent\u00a0article in\u00a0The New Lede<\/em><\/a>\u00a0documents case studies of cancer diagnoses\u00a0linked to chemical-intensive agriculture<\/a>. Current national cancer rates, according to the\u00a0American Cancer Society<\/a>, show that two million new cancer cases are projected to occur during 2025 in the U.S. Additional\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0predicts 618,120 cancer deaths this year as well, highlighting a crisis of great concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Farmers<\/a>,\u00a0farmworkers<\/a>, and their\u00a0families<\/a>\u00a0face disproportionate risks from toxic pesticide exposure. Other\u00a0socioeconomic factors<\/a>\u00a0contribute to disparities in the ability to receive treatment. A frightening indication for the future comes from findings that cancer is striking at\u00a0an earlier age<\/a>, causing some to warn of an epidemic of early-onset cancer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyond the\u00a0huge personal toll<\/a>\u00a0that cancer demands of patients and their families, including\u00a0survivors<\/a>, there are enormous financial costs. The\u00a0personal financial burdens<\/a>\u00a0of paying for cancer\u00a0treatment<\/a>\u00a0and hidden costs, including travel, lodging, and loss of income, add to the stress of the disease on both patients and their families. On a larger scale, the\u00a0National Cancer Institute<\/a>\u00a0finds, \u201cNational costs for cancer care were estimated to be $190.2 billion in 2015. Assuming constant future costs, we project costs to be $208.9 billion in 2020 (2020 U.S. dollars), an increase of 10 percent that is only due to the aging and growth of the U.S. population. These cost estimates include cancer-attributable costs for medical services and oral prescription drugs.\u201d In addition, according to the\u00a0Cancer Atlas<\/a>, \u201cThe economic burden of lost productivity due to premature mortality from cancer is greater than cancer treatment and represents most of the total economic burden of cancer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In spite of the huge burden placed on Americans individually and collectively, U.S. policy allows cancer-causing pesticide use\u00a0even though it is not needed<\/a>\u00a0to grow food and manage land. EPA regulates pesticides under the 1947\u00a0Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act<\/em>\u00a0(FIFRA), to which Congress added a major revision with the\u00a0Food Quality Protection Act<\/em>\u00a0(FQPA) in 1996\u2014which repealed the Delaney Clause, which required the banning of chemical additives in food that cause cancer in humans or animals\u2014if a substance was carcinogenic, no level of it would be allowed to be added to processed food. There was no acceptable threshold below w
\nWith the availability of safer alternatives to toxic chemicals in agriculture, parks, homes, and gardens, the allowance of carcinogens and other substances with documented harm to health and the environment is unreasonable. Organic methods are proven to provide numerous\u00a0health benefits<\/a>, as well as more nutritious food, that can both protect and enhance\u00a0biodiversity<\/a>\u00a0and mitigate the effects of\u00a0climate change<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides is urging the public to: Tell EPA and Congress to eliminate cancer-causing pesticides that contribute to the ongoing cancer pandemic<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Letter to Congress <\/strong>Peter Hopewood, MD, FACS, convinced that \u201ccancer has been an ongoing pandemic since life expectancy increased during the 20th century,\u201d writes in a bulletin in the American College of Surgeons, \u201cThe coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been in the healthcare spotlight since 2019, but the reality is that heart disease and cancer killed more people than COVID-19 in 2020 . . . and were our nation\u2019s leading causes of death for decades before that. Among Americans younger than 85 years of age, cancer remains the leading cause of death.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1985, October was declared \u201cBreast Cancer Awareness Month\u201d as part of a campaign to promote mammograms for the early detection of breast cancer. Unfortunately, most of us are all too aware of breast cancer. Detection and treatment of cancers do not solve the problem. We need prevention, not just awareness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A large body of science links increased cancer risks with exposure to agricultural chemicals, including petrochemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. One recent study finds that the cancer risk posed by pesticides rivals that of smoking. The American Cancer Society projects two million new cancer cases during 2025 in the U.S. Additional research predicts 618,120 cancer deaths this year as well, highlighting a crisis of great concern.<\/p>\n

Farmers, farmworkers, and their families face disproportionate risks from toxic pesticide exposure. Socioeconomic factors contribute to disparities in the ability to receive treatment. A frightening indication for the future comes from findings that cancer is striking at an earlier age, causing some to warn of an epidemic of early-onset cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyond the huge personal toll that cancer demands of patients and their families, including survivors, there are enormous financial costs. The personal financial burdens of paying for cancer treatment and hidden costs\u2014including travel, lodging, and loss of income\u2014add to the stress on both patients and families. On a larger scale, the National Cancer Institute finds, \u201cNational costs for cancer care were estimated to be $190.2 billion in 2015. Assuming constant future costs, we project costs to be $208.9 billion in 2020 (2020 U.S. dollars), an increase of 10 percent that is only due to the aging and growth of the U.S. population. These cost estimates include cancer-attributable costs for medical services and oral prescription drugs.\u201d In addition, according to the Cancer Atlas, \u201cThe economic burden of lost productivity due to premature mortality from cancer is greater than cancer treatment and represents most of the total economic burden of cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the huge burden placed on Americans individually and collectively, the use of cancer-causing pesticides is allowed even though it is not needed to grow food and manage land. EPA regulates pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, which allows pesticides to be used only in the absence of unreasonable adverse effects. Although the Food Quality Protection Act repealed the Delaney Clause, which required the banning of chemical additives in food that cause cancer, replacing it with a risk assessment protocol that allows for uncertainty, ignores preexisting health conditions and vulnerabilities, fails to evaluate chemical mixtures and synergistic effects, and establishes levels of \u201cacceptable\u201d harm, the availability of safer alternatives to toxic chemicals in agriculture, parks, homes, and gardens, makes the continued allowance of carcinogens and other substances with documented harm to health and the environment unreasonable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Organic methods are proven to provide numerous benefits that can prevent cancer, protect and enhance biodiversity, and mitigate the effects of climate change. Please support legislation that eliminates cancer-causing pesticides and promotes organic agriculture and land management.<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

For additional context and background, please see Beyond Pesticides’ Pesticide Induced Diseases Database [PIDD]\u00a0resource on cancer<\/a>, available below!\u00a0<\/em>⬇️<\/p>\n

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All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, July 14, 2025) With the rise in early onset cancer rates and mortality for breast, pancreatic, and gastric cancers, a wide and growing body of science linking pesticides to cancer, and associations between childhood cancer and pesticides, Beyond Pesticides is urging nationwide efforts to eliminate the use of cancer causing pesticides. Peter Hopewood, MD, FACS, writing in a bulletin\u00a0in the American College of Surgeons says, \u201cThe coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been in the healthcare spotlight since 2019, but the reality is that heart disease and cancer killed more people than COVID-19 in 2020 . . . and were our nation’s leading causes of death for decades before that. Among Americans younger than 85 years of age, cancer remains the leading cause of death.\u201d Dr. Hopewood is convinced that \u201ccancer has been an ongoing pandemic since life expectancy increased during the 20th century.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In 1985, Imperial Chemical Industries and the American Cancer Society declared October \u201cBreast Cancer Awareness Month\u201d as part of a campaign to promote\u00a0mammograms\u00a0for the early\u00a0detection\u00a0of breast cancer. Unfortunately, most of us are all too\u00a0aware\u00a0of breast cancer. Detection and treatment of cancers do not solve the problem. A\u00a0preventive approach is needed, not just awareness. 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