Reply to Air pollution was high centuries before industrial revolutions and may have been responsible for cancer rates in medieval Britain

Cancer. 2021 Oct 1;127(19):3699. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33680. Epub 2021 Jul 20.

Authors

Piers D Mitchell¹, Jenna M Dittmar², Bram Mulder¹, Sarah Inskip², Alastair Littlewood³, Craig Cessford^{2

4}, John E Robb¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
² McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Radiology, Peterborough City Hospital, Peterborough, United Kingdom.
⁴ Cambridge Archaeological Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

PMID: 34287832
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.33680

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Air Pollutants*
Air Pollution* / adverse effects
Air Pollution* / analysis
Humans
Industry
Neoplasms* / epidemiology
Neoplasms* / etiology
United Kingdom / epidemiology

Substances

Air Pollutants

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