Objective   To make sure whether there is significant correlation between environmental pesticides exposure and lung cancer morbidity or mortality in agricultural population.

  Methods   Ecological comparing method is used to collect both 1993-1998 pesticides using data and 1998-2000 lung cancer morbidity and mortality data in Shenyang subdurban area.The coefficients of spearsman correlation between pesticides exposure and lung cancer morbidity or mortality are calculated by SPSS 10.0 statistical software.

  Results   The correlation between pesticides using density and morbidity of lung cancer is not significant, except 40-49 in male and 60-69 in female(P < 0.05).Mortality of 1998 in both male and all sex is significant positive correlation with pesticides use density of 1993.The coefficients of correlation are equal to 0.886(P < 0.05).Sex, age-specific analysis show that mortality of 40-49 in male, female and all sex are positive significant correlation with pesticides using density.The coefficients of correlation are 0.886, 0.886 and 0.943, respectively.

  Conclusion   There is correlation between environmental pesticides exposure and lung cancer morbidity or mortality to some extent.