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    Earth Day 2023: Reduce air pollution and make lungs healthy

    Whether it is your car or your child’s school bus or industries, they all emit mixtures of air pollutants. Many of them are harmful to our health. According to World Health Organization, globally it is estimated that air pollution causes nearly 30 percent of lung cancer deaths. So, on Earth Day, which falls on April […] More

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    Air Pollution May Drive Lung Cancer via Inflammation

    Air Pollution May Drive Lung Cancer via Inflammation

    Researchers have concluded that airborne fine particulate matter, which has been consistently linked to cancer, promotes lung cancer via inflammation and not necessarily via mutagenesis [1]. Not just mutations Common wisdom says that carcinogens increase cancer risk mostly by promoting oncogenic mutations. Research has reported that this is true for some carcinogens, such as tobacco […] More