IARC: Outdoor air pollution a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths

PRESS RELEASE N° 221 Lyon/Geneva, 17 October 2013 The specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), announced today that it has classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1).1 After thoroughly reviewing the latest available scientific literature, the world’s leading experts convened by the … Continue reading IARC: Outdoor air pollution a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths