Câncer de mama: investigando os efeitos do uso de agrotóxicos nesta neoplasia

Abstract

This study aimed to study the incidence of breast cancer and its relation with the use of pesticides through theoretical reference. Breast cancer has grown to a large extent and when malignant, its cells are aggressive, dividing rapidly, forming tumors. When it is not possible to control those cells, it begins to metastasized, dividing themselves through the body. In Brazil, the agro toxins usage has grown extensively on the last decades, as well as the incidence of breast cancer. Therefore, this study was accomplished as a descriptive search and qualitative, as a bibliographic reference regarding to investigations on the usage of agro toxins and its association with breast cancer incidence. Articles exposed on PubMed, Scielo and Scopus data bank were utilized at the process of research, during the period of 2013 to 2017. The main keywords utilized on the search were: agro toxins; breast cancer. A reading of the titles and summaries from the articles was achieved as a previous selection, to evaluate if the approached themes agreed with the goal of this study, the ones that did not coincided were discarded. The exclusion criteria of the articles collected were (1) review and meta-analysis articles, (2) articles developed on different languages that not the Portuguese, English and Spanish and (3) published year inferior than 2013. As observed result, the evidence of breast cancer and pesticides are not so great, but it is worth mentioning findings in organochlorines, there was a higher incidence of risk of developing the disease.