ArticleEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.)2019
Ambient air pollution and lung cancer risk among never-smokers in the Women's Health Initiative.
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- 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
- Association between second-hand smoke exposure and lung cancer risk in never-smokers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2024Pooled it
- Assessing the Global Impact of Ambient Air Pollution on Cancer Incidence and Mortality: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis.JCO global oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Impacts of Outdoor Particulate Matter Exposure on the Incidence of Lung Cancer and Mortality.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Pooled it
- Risk Factors Associated With Incidence of Lung Cancer in Never-Smokers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JTO clinical and research reports · 2025Article
- Global burden of respiratory system cancers in 2022 and 2050: incidence and mortality estimates from GLOBOCAN.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- Treatment of Lung Cancer in Women.Surgical oncology clinics of North America · 2025Review
- Metabolomic evaluation of air pollution-related bone damage and potential mediation in Women's Health Initiative participants.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2025Article
- Lung cancer associated with combustion particles and fine particulate matter (PMBiochemical pharmacology · 2023Review
- Impact of Environmental Exposures on Lung Cancer in Patients Who Never Smoked.World journal of surgery · 2023Article
- Exposure to low-level ambient air pollution and the relationship with lung and bladder cancer in older men, in Perth, Western Australia.British journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Etiology of lung cancer: Evidence from epidemiologic studies.Journal of the National Cancer Center · 2022Review
- Exposure to diesel engine exhaust and alterations to the Cys34/Lys525 adductome of human serum albumin.Environmental toxicology and pharmacology · 2022Article
- Commute patterns, residential traffic-related air pollution, and lung cancer risk in the prospective UK Biobank cohort study.Environment international · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAmbient air pollution is classified as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). However, epidemiologic studies supporting this classification have focused on lung cancer mortality rather than incidence, and spatial and temporal resolutions of exposure estimates have varied considerably across studies.
methodsWe evaluated the association of outdoor air pollution and lung cancer incidence among never-smoking participants of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study, a large, US-based cohort of postmenopausal women (N = 65,419; 265 cases). We used geospatial models to estimate exposures to fine particulate matter (PM
resultsNo compelling associations of PM
conclusionsOur results do not exclude lung cancer risk estimates observed in association with PM
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