Resuspended Nano-Minerals in Coal Ash: A Potential Factor in Elevated Lung Cancer Rates in Xuanwei and Fuyuan, Yunnan, China.

Wenhua Wang, Mengyang Wang, Longyi Shao, Jiajia Shao, Pengju Liu

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in Toxics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

[China Wumeng Mountain Lung Cancer:  Evidence Chain, Clinical and Molecular Characteristics of Regional Lung Cancer  Related to Coal Pollution in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2026
Review

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Wenhua WangSchool of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1074-8373

Mengyang WangSchool of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.

Longyi ShaoState Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining & College of Geosciences and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9975-6091

Jiajia ShaoSchool of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.

Pengju LiuState Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining & College of Geosciences and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 42475113Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province D2024501001

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Xuanwei and the neighboring Fuyuan (XF) counties in Yunnan Province have the highest lung cancer incidence rates in China. Previous studies suggest that the nano-minerals released during the combustion of locally sourced "smoky" (bituminous) coal are the primary contributors to these elevated cancer rates. The coal ash generated during combustion predominantly consists of nano-minerals, which can be resuspended into the atmosphere during routine ash-handling activities. In this study, coal ash samples from XF counties and four additional provinces with lower lung cancer incidence rates were resuspended to simulate ash-handling activities and subsequently collected using a cascade PM

Indexed as

coal ashFe-rich particlelung cancerquartzXuanwei

Identifiers

PMID39771134

DOI10.3390/toxics12120919

PMCPMC11728513

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

LicenceCC BY

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.