Air pollution fuels lung cancer among non-smokers: Study

According to a study released on Tuesday ( Feb 4), air pollution is causing a rise in the most prevalent form of lung cancer among non-smokers, hitting women and people in Southeast Asia particularly hard.

2.5 million people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2022, according to the study, which was released on World Cancer Day in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine blog.

There were almost a million cases of women’s HIV, but the majority were people.

One essential type of heart cancer- carcinoma- has become commonplace among women in 185 countries, the authors wrote in the Chinese-funded research.

According to the study, “air pollutants can be regarded as an important factor that contributes to the emerging prevalence of carcinoma, which accounts for 53 to 70 % of lung cancer cases among people who have never smoked worldwide,”

Between 2020 and 2022, they discovered that it increased between men and women, with girls accounting for about six in ten circumstances, with the latter having the highest growth rate.

The experts added that the occurrence of lung cancer in people who have never smoked has increased as the prevalence of smoking is continuing to rise in many countries around the world.

According to estimates, lung cancer in those who have never smoked accounts for the fifth-highest incidence of cancer-related mortality worldwide, almost entirely as adenocarcinoma and most frequently in women and Asian populations.

The study used data from monitors like the World Health Organization to present quantitative research.

According to the experts, East Asia, especially China, had the highest levels of adenoma linked to air pollution.

According to them,” the prevalence of home burning of solid fuels for heating and cooking could be a contributing factor” among non-smokers Chinese people.