Ambient Air Pollution and Cancer Mortality in the Cancer Prevention Study II.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The International Agency for Research on Cancer classified both outdoor air pollution and airborne particulate matter as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) for lung cancer. There may be associations with cancer at other sites; however, the epidemiological evidence is limited.

Objective

The aim of this study was to clarify whether ambient air pollution is associated with specific types of cancer other than lung cancer by examining associations of ambient air pollution with nonlung cancer death in the Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II).

Methods

Analysis included 623,048 CPS-II participants who were followed for 22 y (1982-2004). Modeled estimates of particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter <2.5µm (PM_2.5) (1999-2004), nitrogen dioxide (NO_2</

SUBMITTER: Turner MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5783657 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature