ReviewCA: a cancer journal for clinicians2020
Outdoor air pollution and cancer: An overview of the current evidence and public health recommendations.
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302 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 817 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of Pollution on Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis with Focus on Air Pollution.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Pooled it
- Residential exposure to municipal solid waste incinerators and health effects: a systematic review with meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Association between air pollution and risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: an updated meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Mapping three decades of air pollution-lung cancer research: trends, hotspots, and networks (1990-2025).Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and Breast Cancer Risk Worldwide: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of spatial and temporal epidemiological approaches, focus on lung cancer risk associated with particulate matter.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Ambient air pollution and urological cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological evidence.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
- Associations between transport modes and site-specific cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2024Pooled it
- Global epidemiology of breast cancer based on risk factors: a systematic review.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Pooled it
- Neighborhood Deprivation and Rurality Associated With Patient-Reported Outcomes and Survival in Men With Prostate Cancer in NRG Oncology RTOG 0415.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2023Trial
- GAS flaring and cancer in the Amazon of Ecuador: an ecological study.Global health action · 2026Article
- High-Throughput Geocoding to Assess Short-Term Air Pollution in Correlation With Mortality in a French Cancer Patient Cohort.International journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Associations of Outdoor Air Pollution With Incidence of Cancers Other Than Lung Cancer in a Large US Prospective Cohort.International journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Association between ambient air pollution and colorectal cancer risk: The Multiethnic Cohort Study.Environmental research · 2026Article
- Inhalable bioadhesive barrier for lung protection and clearance of fine particulate matter.Bioactive materials · 2026Article
- Health effects of air pollution on chronic respiratory diseases.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2026Review
- Exposure to Particulate Matter (PM) During Pregnancy and Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas in Children.Cancers · 2026Article
- Blood metabolomic signatures linking air pollution to lung cancer in the Cancer Prevention Studies.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Hallmarks of lung cancer driven by inhalable particulate matter: From cell-intrinsic oncogenic traits to microenvironment remodeling.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2026Review
- Characterization of the cancer-associated field of injury in the nasal epithelium in never-smokers.Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
242 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Outdoor air pollution is a major contributor to the burden of disease worldwide. Most of the global population resides in places where air pollution levels, because of emissions from industry, power generation, transportation, and domestic burning, considerably exceed the World Health Organization's health-based air-quality guidelines. Outdoor air pollution poses an urgent worldwide public health challenge because it is ubiquitous and has numerous serious adverse human health effects, including cancer. Currently, there is substantial evidence from studies of humans and experimental animals as well as mechanistic evidence to support a causal link between outdoor (ambient) air pollution, and especially particulate matter (PM) in outdoor air, with lung cancer incidence and mortality. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of lung cancer deaths annually worldwide are attributable to PM air pollution. Epidemiological evidence on outdoor air pollution and the risk of other types of cancer, such as bladder cancer or breast cancer, is more limited. Outdoor air pollution may also be associated with poorer cancer survival, although further research is needed. This report presents an overview of outdoor air pollutants, sources, and global levels, as well as a description of epidemiological evidence linking outdoor air pollution with cancer incidence and mortality. Biological mechanisms of air pollution-derived carcinogenesis are also described. This report concludes by summarizing public health/policy recommendations, including multilevel interventions aimed at individual, community, and regional scales. Specific roles for medical and health care communities with regard to prevention and advocacy and recommendations for further research are also described.
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