“ In France, the number of pancreatic cancers has doubled for men and tripled for women between the 1990s and 2020s. This is a real epidemiological phenomenon.", notes Dr. Mathias Brugel, hepato-gastroenterologist and epidemiologist at the Bayonne – Côte Basque Hospital and first author of a new study linking these pancreatic cancers to exposure to pesticides. An explosion in the number of cases which is " two to three times stronger " in France than elsewhere in Europe, particularly the Nordic countries, specifies Professor Olivier Bouché, digestive oncologist at the Reims University Hospital and co-signatory of the study. To the point that practitioners are seeing it in their patients, on their scale. " This is very much felt in our daily practice, where patients with pancreatic cancer are more numerous and younger – under 60 years old.", specifies Mathias Brugel.
In France, the explosion in the number of pancreatic cancers seems to be linked to pesticides
January 10, 2025
By Camille Gaubert THE Subscribers
While in France, the increase in the number of pancreatic cancers is alarming compared to the rest of the world, researchers make the link with our strong agricultural tropism. According to their analyses, nine of the most used or most dangerous pesticides are linked to the increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
Spraying pesticides on vines in France.
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