Association of air pollution with postmenopausal breast cancer risk in UK Biobank

Abstract Background We investigated the association of several air pollution measures with postmenopausal breast cancer (BCa) risk. Methods This study included 155,235 postmenopausal women (of which 6146 with BCa) from UK Biobank. Cancer diagnoses were ascertained through the linkage to the UK Natio...

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Main Authors: Carmen Smotherman, Brian Sprague, Susmita Datta, Dejana Braithwaite, Huaizhen Qin, Lusine Yaghjyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-07-01
Series:Breast Cancer Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-023-01681-w