Outdoor air pollution and cancer

Outdoor air pollution and cancer: An overview of the current ...

There is clear and substantial evidence of a link between outdoor ambient air pollution, and particularly PM in outdoor air, with lung cancer incidence and ...

Outdoor air pollution and cancer: An overview of the current ...

Outdoor air pollution may also be associated with poorer cancer survival, although further research is needed. This report presents an overview ...

Air Pollution May be Associated With Many Kinds of Cancer

A new study suggests that pollution is also associated with increased risk of mortality for several other types of cancer, including breast, liver, and ...

Cancer and air pollution | UICC

Exposure to air pollution can lead to cancer, stroke, respiratory, cardiovascular diseases and other health issues.

How Can Air Pollution Cause Cancer?

Outdoor air pollution causes roughly 1 in 10 cases of lung cancer in the UK. But, it's important to keep this in perspective. Smoking has a much ...

Overview. Exposure to ambient outdoor air pollution is associated with many adverse health outcomes, including cancer. While most lung cancers can be attributed ...

High levels of particulate air pollution associated with increased ...

“We observed an 8% increase in breast cancer incidence for living in areas with higher PM2.5 exposure. Although this is a relatively modest ...

Ambient (outdoor) air pollution - World Health Organization (WHO)

Ambient (outdoor) air pollution in both cities and rural areas was estimated to cause 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide per year in 2019.

Assessing the Global Impact of Ambient Air Pollution on Cancer ...

This study aims to examine the association between exposure to major ambient air pollutants and the incidence and mortality of lung cancer and some nonlung ...

Air Pollution | Canadian Cancer Society

Research has also found a link between outdoor air pollution and a higher risk of bladder cancer. More research is needed to study the link between cancer and ...

Air Pollution and Lung Cancer: A Review by International ...

Therefore, especially in people with a high genetic risk, prolonged air pollution may increase the incidence of lung cancer. Huang et al.

Ambient air pollution and urological cancer risk: A systematic review ...

Exposure to ambient air pollution has significant adverse health effects; however, whether air pollution is associated with urological ...

Outdoor air pollution from traffic, industrial, and agricultural sources

DCEG researchers investigate various outdoor air pollutants thought to be associated with cancer risk. These include the traffic-related pollutants most ...

The Connection between Lung Cancer and Outdoor Air Pollution

Did you know that air pollution can also cause lung cancer? Overwhelming evidence shows that particle pollution in the outdoor air we ...

Outdoor air pollution may increase non-lung cancer risk in older adults

Chronic exposure to PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide may increase non-lung cancer risk in older adults, according to a new Harvard study.

Outdoor air pollution and risk of incident adult haematologic cancer ...

Pollutant associations with haematologic cancers are suggestive, but these cancers are aetiologically heterogeneous and sub-type examinations are lacking.

Air pollution - European Environment Agency

Air pollution (indoor and outdoor) is a major environmental risk for health in Europe, and a known cause of cancer, in particular of the lung.

Outdoor Air Pollution - IARC Publications Website

An IARC Monographs Working Group reviewed epidemiological studies, animal cancer bioassays, and mechanistic data to assess the carcinogenic hazards of exposure ...

Environmental & Occupational Exposures | The Cancer Atlas

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS. Outdoor air pollution causes between 6 and 8 million premature deaths from lung cancer and other diseases each year. The International ...

Q&As on outdoor air pollution and cancer

Outdoor air pollution refers to a complex mixture of pollutants found in outdoor ... How does the risk of lung cancer from outdoor air pollution compare with that ...