Glyphosate and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Abstract

The herbicide “glyphosate” known with the trade name of “Round- Up” has been using for 50 years and it is the world’s most widely used herbicide. It has helped to increase the agricultural yields of crops around the world, thus assisting to feed billions of peoples. After Round-Up was declared “probable carcinogen” in 2015 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), there has been a growing number of claims that glyphosate is the cause of the types of cancer of the most poorly understood origin, such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma. From an analysis of the available literature, the link between non-Hodgkin lymphoma and “Round-Up” is shown to be extremely weak.