ArticleEnvironmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)2017
Quartz in ash, and air in a high lung cancer incidence area in China.
Article in Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Exposure to outdoor air pollution and its human-related health outcomes: an evidence gap map.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Constituents of Household Air Pollution and Risk of Lung Cancer among Never-Smoking Women in Xuanwei and Fuyuan, China.Environmental health perspectives · 2019Article
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Abstract
Exposure to crystalline silica (quartz) has been implicated as a potential cause of the high lung cancer rates in the neighbouring counties of Xuanwei and Fuyuan, China, where the domestic combustion of locally sourced "smoky" coal (a bituminous coal) is responsible for some of the highest lung cancer rates in the nation, irrespective of gender or smoking status. Previous studies have shown that smoky coal contains approximately twice as much quartz when compared to alternative fuels in the area, although it is unclear how the quartz in coal relates to household air pollution. Samples of ash and fine particulate matter (PM
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