Associations between incident breast cancer and ambient concentrations of nitrogen dioxide from a national land use regression model in the Canadian National Breast Screening Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that exposure to low concentrations of NO2, a marker for traffic-related air pollution, increases the risk of premenopausal breast cancer, but not postmenopausal breast cancer.
PMID: 31648153 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Environment International - October 20, 2019 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Goldberg MS, Villeneuve PJ, Crouse D, To T, Weichenthal SA, Wall C, Miller AB Tags: Environ Int Source Type: research