Image source: National Breast Cancer Foundation The linkage between particulate matter and cancer is well established. For example, in 2012, the World Health Organization identified diesel exhaust, one of the chief sources of particulate matter in many cities, as a carcinogen, and a...
A new study links particulate matter air pollution to breast cancer and cancers of digestive organs, and finds that higher exposures to particulate matter greatly increase the risk of death from cancer. An increase in long term exposure of fine particulate matter of just 10 microgram per cubic...