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Traffic Fumes Up Lung Cancer Risk
Even low level exposure to traffic fumes is enough to raise the risk of lung cancer, a large European study has revealed.
The new research, that analysed pooled information from 17 studies in nine European countries, has found that people’s chances of having the disease rose with greater exposure tosmall sooty particles which are generated bydiesel exhausts which are known to lodge in the lungs, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Lead scientist Dr Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, from the Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, said that the results showed a picture that ‘the more the worse, the less the better.’
The study was published in the journal The Lancet Oncology.
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Enviromentalist
July 17, 2013 at 7:00 am
Some of these problems only affect those with weak lungs in developed countries. Just think of how much diesel fumes we inhale everyday and how many have lung cancer in Zambia. Here diesel fumes are not a threat. We are used.
Reason
July 17, 2013 at 8:06 am
I have always suspected that. Come to think how it feels when you are stuck in heavy traffic during the day. The stress on the eyes and in some cases itch sensation owing to contamination from exhaust fumes. What more of the lungs whose principal function is to purify and infuse air into the blood stream.
ba medza
July 17, 2013 at 8:45 am
With these huge traffic on our streets elyo nomba twalafwa,nangu nkayafye ku farm where there’s always fresh & pollutant free air.