Ambient Air Pollution and Cancer Mortality in the Cancer Prevention Study II

Conclusions:
The results from this large prospective study suggest that ambient air pollution was not associated with death from most nonlung cancers, but associations with kidney, bladder, and colorectal cancer death warrant further investigation. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1249

Received: 18 October 2016
Revised: 31 March 2017
Accepted: 31 March 2017
Published: 21 August 2017
Address correspondence to M.C. Turner, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, 600 Peter Morand Cres., Room 216, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 3Z7. Telephone: [phone]. Email: [e-mail]
Supplemental Material is available online (https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1249).
M.C.T. reports personal fees from ICF Incorporated, LLC, outside this work. D.K. reports serving as Chief Risk Scientist and CEO at Risk Sciences International (http://www.risksciences.com), a Canadian company established in 2006 in partnership with the University of Ottawa conducting work in air quality risk assessment for both public and private sector clients. D.K. also holds an Industrial Research Chair in Risk Science under a peer-reviewed university–industry partnership program administered by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, which involves methodological research in air pollution risk assessment. D.K. also recently served as Chair of the U.S. Health Effects Institute Diesel Epidemiology Panel, which conducted an evaluation of recent epidemiological e...

Source: EHP Research - August 21, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Daniil Lyalko Tags: Research Source Type: research