Cancer

Women who experience breast cancer later in life may have been exposed to air pollution early in life or when giving birth for the first time. Links have been established between air pollution and breast cancer where particulate pollution alters women's DNA and tumor suppression which, in turn, increased susceptibility to this serious health problem.
Air Pollution Link to Cancer Study Results Released Early This Year
In April 2011, study results were presented by the University at Buffalo at the annual 2011 American Association for Cancer Research conference about a newly discovered set of cancer links. Lead research investigator, Katharine Dobson, MPH[...]

The air pollution from factory smokestacks, vehicles, cigarette smoke, and other sources have been linked by experts to diseases including lung cancer. These experts believe there is a direct link between the higher risks of lung cancer with increased exposure to fine particles found in air pollution. Most of us know that smoking cigarettes is one of the main causes of lung cancer. But less known is that breathing heavily polluted air long-term can raise the risk of lung cancer as much as breathing second-hand smoke.
In a recent study, the largest impact of air pollution causing lung cancer was with[...]