Residential proximity to animal feeding operations and risk of lymphohematopoietic cancers in the Iowa Women’s Health Study

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Animal feeding operations (AFOs) are important sources of hazardous emissions into the surrounding environment. Residential proximity to farm animals has been linked to the risk of lymphohematopoietic malignancies in farming populations; we evaluated this relationship for the first time in the general population residing in agricultural areas. METHODS: We linked enrollment (1986) addresses of 28,196 participants in the Iowa...