CHE Toxicant and Disease Database
Displaying diseases linked to organochlorine pesticides (grouped by strength of evidence).
Strong:
Good:
Limited:
- Abnormal sperm (morphology, motility, and sperm count)
- Acute hepatocellular injury (hepatitis)
- Adult-onset leukemias*
- Altered sex ratio
- Altered time to sexual maturation (accelerated or delayed puberty)
- Aplastic anemia
- Autoimmune antibodies (positive ANA, anti-DNA, RF, etc.)
- Bladder cancer
- Breast cancer
- Bronchitis - acute
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Colorectal cancer
- Decreased vision (includes blindness, retinopathy, optic neuropathy)
- Gallbladder cancer
- Hepatocellular cancer (liver cancer)
- Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma)
- Lung cancer
- Lymphoma (non-Hodgkin's)
- Parkinson's disease / movement disorders
- Psychiatric disturbances (disorientation, hallucinations, psychosis, delirium, paranoias, anxiety/depression, emotional lability, mood changes, euphoria)
- Reduced fertility - female (infertility and subfertility)
- Soft tissue sarcoma*
- Testicular cancer
- Thyroid disorders - hypothyroidism
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