Most myeloma survivors, at one time or another, wonder what caused their myeloma. I read countless posts to forums from survivors who either lived on a farm to next to one breathing pesticides for years. The article below confirms pesticide exposure as one of the evironmental causes of myeloma. Another environmental cause is exposure to benzene in a printing plant. I worked in a printing plant before my mm diagnosis.
Multiple Myeloma and farming. A systematic review of 30 years of research. Where next?
"Conclusions: Farmers seem to have increase risk for MM. However, a major limitation of this analysis is the presence of significant heterogeneity across the studies and the evidence of publication bias in some models.A pooled analysis using individual level data could provide more power and permit the harmonization of occupational and exposure coding data"
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