• Samarth Varshney
• Pawan Kumar Gupta

Synthetic pesticides are responsible for causing cancer in humans. Some pesticides like organophosphates and organochlorines are responsible for causing cancer and some other toxic effects in the humans. Different pesticides are responsible for different types of pesticides like DDT causing breast cancer, Bifenthrin causing Prostate cancer etc. Governments of India and other countries had given guidelines for the use of pesticides and they also banned some pesticides which are very dangerous and causing some serious effects on human health. Every class of pesticides have different mechanism of action of causing cancer. So, in this review article we will come to know about the types of pesticides and their mechanism of causing cancer in human beings. Guidelines issued by the government for the use of pesticides should be seriously considered by the people for the proper use of pesticides. List of pesticides are banned by the government due to their toxic effects on the human beings. WHO had also banned some pesticides because of their oncogenic effect, and it also provides the amount of pesticides should be use for crop production.

Pesticides, Cancer, Guidelines by government, Banned pesticides

"Pesticides responsible for causing cancer in humans : An overview", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no.1204-1217, January-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2101152.pdf

"Pesticides responsible for causing cancer in humans : An overview", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no. pp1204-1217, January-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2101152.pdf