Article Dans Une Revue Nature Health Année : 2026

Mapping pesticide mixtures to cancer risk at the country scale with spatial exposomics

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Despite decades of concern over the carcinogenic potential of agricultural pesticides, toxicological studies relying on single endpoints have yet to establish a definitive link between environmental pesticide exposure and cancer in real-world contexts. Here we use an integrative spatial Bayesian framework that merges high-resolution environmental pesticide risk modelling with comprehensive cancer registry data to map pesticide-linked cancer clusters in Peru with unprecedented precision. Our process-based model, encompassing 31 key pesticide active ingredients, together with an innovative stratification of cancer cases by developmental lineage, reveals a robust spatial association between environmental pesticide exposure risk and cancer incidence. In pesticide-associated cancer hotspots, exposomic profiling of liver tissue—a primary target of chemical carcinogens—uncovers a distinct transcriptomic signature of pesticide exposure, implicating a non-genotoxic mode of action that disrupts core regulatory circuitries sustaining cell identity. Collectively, these findings strongly support a mechanistic link between pesticide exposure and cancer, challenging assumptions of human non-carcinogenicity derived from reductionist experimental models. This study redefines the exposome as a lineage-conditioned, mechanistically tractable framework and shows how complex pesticide mixtures can contribute to carcinogenic trajectories, with profound and far-reaching implications for global health policy and socio-ecological equity.

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Cite 10.6084/m9.figshare.29728463 Jeu de données Bertani, S., & Honles, J. (2026). Multi-source Datasets and Modelling Code Supporting ‘Mapping Pesticide Mixtures to Cancer Risk at Country Scale with Spatial Exposomics’ [Data set]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.29728463

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hal-05575835 , version 1 (01-04-2026)

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Jorge Honles, Juan Pablo Cerapio, Claudia Monge, Agnès Marchio, Eloy Ruiz, et al.. Mapping pesticide mixtures to cancer risk at the country scale with spatial exposomics. Nature Health, 2026, ⟨10.1038/s44360-026-00087-0⟩. ⟨hal-05575835⟩
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