Thousands of breast cancer cases could be avoided in France every year by dramatically improving air quality. This conclusion, which opens the way to the prevention of the most common cancer in women, is the Inserm researchers who studied the relationship between the risk of breast cancer and chronic exposure to air pollution.
The XENAIR study, the latest results of which were presented Monday, Oct. 3, ahead of publication in a scientific journal, highlights the increased risk of cancer from exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), an urban pollutant mainly from car traffic. as well as benzopyrene and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Both of these substances are now less in the ambient air because they are highly regulated.
Scientists are also looking at a link, which is statistically less clear, between breast cancer and exposure to fine particles (PM2.5 and…
Source: Le Figaro
