Cancer incidence attributable to air pollution in Alberta in 2012.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified outdoor air pollution (fine particulate matter [PM2.5]) as a Group 1 lung carcinogen in humans. We aimed to estimate the proportion of lung cancer cases attributable to PM2.5 exposure in Alberta in 2012.

Methods

Annual average concentrations of PM2.5 in 2011 for 22 communities across Alberta were extracted from the Clean Air Strategic Alliance Data Warehouse and were population-weighted across the province. Using 7.5 µg/m3 and 3.18 µg/m3 as the annual average theoretical minimum risk concentrations of PM2.5, we estimated the proportion of the population above this cut-off to determine the population attributable risk of lung cancer due to PM2.5 exposure.

Results

The mean population-weighted conc

SUBMITTER: Poirier AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5498315 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature