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Elias Dritsas and Maria Trigka
The lungs are the center of breath control and ensure that every cell in the body receives oxygen. At the same time, they filter the air to prevent the entry of useless substances and germs into the body. The human body has specially designed defence mec...
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Giovanni Maria Ferri, Graziana Intranuovo, Domenica Cavone, Vincenzo Corrado, Francesco Birtolo, Paolo Tricase, Raffaele Fuso, Valeria Vilardi, Marilena Sumerano, Nicola L?abbate and Luigi Vimercati
Indoor radon exposure is responsible for increased incidence of lung cancer in communities. Building construction characteristics, materials, and environmental determinants are associated with increased radon concentration at specific sites. In this stud...
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Yi Sun, Frank Bochmann, Annette Nold and Markus Mattenklott
To critically evaluate the association between diesel exhaust (DE) exposure and the risk of lung cancer, we conducted a systematic review of published epidemiological evidences. To comprehensively identify original studies on the association between DE e...
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Jing Chen
Long-term exposure to elevated indoor radon concentrations has been determined to be the second leading cause of lung cancer in adults after tobacco smoking. With the establishment of a National Radon Program in Canada in 2007 thousands of homes across t...
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David Vernez, Olivier Duperrex, Horacio Herrera, Vincent Perret, Isabelle Rossi, Frederic Regamey and Michel Guillemin
The measurement of an airborne concentration in Amosite fibers above 5035 F/m3 in a school prompted a retrospective quantitative health risk assessment. Dose estimates were built using air measurements, laboratory experiments, previous exposure data, and...
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Francisco Silva, Tania Pereira, Julieta Frade, José Mendes, Claudia Freitas, Venceslau Hespanhol, José Luis Costa, António Cunha and Hélder P. Oliveira
Lung cancer late diagnosis has a large impact on the mortality rate numbers, leading to a very low five-year survival rate of 5%. This issue emphasises the importance of developing systems to support a diagnostic at earlier stages. Clinicians use Compute...
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Yunning Liu, Thomas Astell-Burt, Jiangmei Liu, Peng Yin, Xiaoqi Feng, Jinling You, Andrew Page, Maigeng Zhou and Lijun Wang
We investigated temporal trends and geographical variations in lung cancer mortality in China from 2006 to 2012. Lung cancer mortality counts for people aged over 40 years were extracted from the China Mortality Surveillance System for 161 disease survei...
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Darian M. Onchis, Flavia Costi, Codruta Istin, Ciprian Cosmin Secasan and Gabriel V. Cozma
(1) Background: Lung cancers are the most common cancers worldwide, and prostate cancers are among the second in terms of the frequency of cancers diagnosed in men. Automatic ranking of the risk groups of such diseases is highly in demand, but the clinic...
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Valeria Ojeda-Castillo, Alberto López-López, Leonel Hernández-Mena, Mario Alfonso Murillo-Tovar, José De Jesús Díaz-Torres, Iván Y. Hernández-Paniagua, Jorge Del Real-Olvera and Elizabeth León-Becerril
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and quinones in the gas phase and as submicron particles raise concerns due to their potentially carcinogenic and mutagenic properties. The majority of existing studies have investigated the formation of quinones, ...
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Lichao Sun, Yunyun Dong, Shuang Xu, Xiufang Feng and Xiaole Fan
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) are the most common driver genes in non-small cell lung cancer patients. However, frequent gene mutation testing raises a potential risk of cancer metastasis. In our paper, a Mut-SeRe...
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Hong-Bae Kim, Jae-Yong Shim, Byoungjin Park and Yong-Jae Lee
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between main air pollutants and all cancer mortality by performing a meta-analysis. We searched PubMed, EMBASE (a biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database of published literature produced...
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Jessica Imbrescia, Giulia Volpi, Silvia Lucchini, Cristian Toraci, Giorgio Facheris, Salvatore La Mattina, Navdeep Singh, Filippo Vaccher, Andrea Guerini, Michela Buglione di Monale e Bastia, Alessio Bruni and Paolo Borghetti
Background: The standard treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) is represented by concomitant chemo-radiotherapy followed by consolidation with durvalumab that ensures a 5-year survival of 46%. However, the risk of radiother...
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Xin Mai, Ning Wu, Qun Nan and Sixin Bi
Microwave ablation, as an emerging method for treating lung cancer, has been widely used because of its advantages, such as being less invasive and having fewer side effects compared with other therapies, such as surgery and chemotherapy. The key to micr...
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Gonçalo Marques, Cristina Roque Ferreira and Rui Pitarma
Occupational health can be strongly influenced by the indoor environment as people spend 90% of their time indoors. Although indoor air quality (IAQ) is not typically monitored, IAQ parameters could be in many instances very different from those defined ...
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Lixia Xu, Chao Ren, Chao Yuan, Janet E. Nichol and William B. Goggins
There is evidence that access to green spaces have positive effects on health, possibly through beneficial effects on exercise, air quality, urban heat islands, and stress. Few previous studies have examined the associations between green space and morta...
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Livia Della Ragione, Meccariello Giovanni
Pág. 3179 - 3188
Transport activities contribute significantly to the air pollution and its impact on emissions is a key element in the evaluation of any transport policy or plan. Calculation of emissions has therefore gained institutional importance in the European Comm...
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Jinyao Mo, Yajuan Xia, Timothy J. Wade, David M. DeMarini, Mercy Davidson and Judy Mumford
Chronic arsenic exposure results in higher risk of skin, lung, and bladder cancer, as well as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects on expression of selected genes in the blood lymphocytes from 159 ...
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