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Air Pollution Cancer Breakthrough Will Rewrite the Rules

10 Sep 2022 | Abstracted from BBC

"Researchers say they have cracked how air pollution leads to cancer, in a discovery that completely transforms our understanding of how tumours arise....air pollution was waking up old damaged cells. The findings could explain how hundreds of cancer-causing substances act on the body.

"It's super-important - 99% of people in the world live in places where air pollution exceeds the WHO guidelines so it really impacts all of us."

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