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Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Cancer pp 135–148Cite as

Epidemiological Evidence on Outdoor Air Pollution and Cancer

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Ambient air pollution may give rise to several types of health effects, ranging from annoyance reactions and acute irritation of eyes and airways to chronic inflammatory diseases, cancer and death [1]. Only malignant diseases will be discussed in this chapter, although it is realised that cancer may not represent the most important type of effect from a public health point of view.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Box 60208, 104 01, Stockholm, Sweden

    Göran Pershagen

  2. Cancer Registry of the Veneto Region, Via Giustiniani 7, 35128, Padova, Italy

    Lorenzo Simonato

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    Lorenzo Tomatis

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Pershagen, G., Simonato, L. (1993). Epidemiological Evidence on Outdoor Air Pollution and Cancer. In: Tomatis, L. (eds) Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Cancer. Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78197-1_8

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