[Ambient air benz[a]pyrene and cancer morbidity in Kemerovo]

Gig Sanit. 2006 Jul-Aug:(4):28-30.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

A statistically significant direct strong correlation was found between the annual average daily concentrations of air benz[a]pyrene and the lung and the gastric cancer morbidity rates in males and females, skin, thyroid, and ovarian cancer in females. The certain interval of the measured concentration of benz[a]pyrene and the recorded morbidity rate was shown to be characteristic of each of the above-mentioned tumors.

MeSH terms

  • Air / analysis*
  • Air Pollutants / adverse effects*
  • Benzopyrenes / analysis*
  • Catchment Area, Health
  • Environmental Pollution / statistics & numerical data*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Male
  • Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Prevalence
  • Russia / epidemiology

Substances

  • Air Pollutants
  • Benzopyrenes