Roundup And Cancer. Ordinary consumers including people who eat roundup ready crops have a far far lower exposure and dozens of studies have failed to show any increased risk of cancer for consumers. What kind of cancer does roundup cause.
Last week a federal jury ordered monsanto the maker of roundup to pay 80 million to a 70 year old man with cancer who had used it for three decades on his 56 acres in sonoma county calif. Monsanto and its supporters point to a number of studies that found no evidence of a link between roundup and any form of cancer. For example a 2016 study funded by monsanto did not find support in the epidemiologic literature for a causal association between glyphosate and non hodgkin lymphoma nhl or multiple myeloma mm two types of cancer commonly associated with the substance.
Many scientists believe glyphosate causes an increased risk for the development of certain forms of cancer including non hodgkin s lymphoma nhl and hairy cell leukemia.
When abnormal blood cells develop in a person s blood marrow they grow in tremendous numbers eventually. Last week a federal jury ordered monsanto the maker of roundup to pay 80 million to a 70 year old man with cancer who had used it for three decades on his 56 acres in sonoma county calif. There is some scientific evidence showing a potential link to cancer from exposure to roundup weed killer s active ingredient glyphosate. A recent study into the effects of glyphosate showed a potential link with cancer as well as liver and kidney damage.
