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Study Links Air Pollution to Lung Cancer in Non-smokers

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gmays

11mo ago· 7 min readenNews

Summary

A study published in Nature links air pollution and other environmental exposures to genetic mutations contributing to lung cancer in non-smokers. Researchers from the University of California San Diego and the National Cancer Institute led the study.

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We’re seeing this problematic trend that never-smokers are increasingly getting lung cancer, but we haven’t understood why.
The study was jointly led by researchers at the University of California San Diego and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic mutations that may contribute to the development of lung cancer in people with no or hardly any history of smoking.

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