title: [Air pollution and cancer (author's transl)].
abstract: Several data justify the suspension that air pollution may contribute to cancer risk. These observations are: high risk of lung cancer in coal gas workers; higher incidence of lung cancer in urbanized regions as compared with rural ones and higher incidence in highly industrialized countries as compared with less industrialized; observations in migrant populations; data of comparative pathology. Specific studies of the association between lung cancer and air pollution taking into consideration confounding variables failed to give conclusive evidence of a causal relationship. Obviously the role of air pollution for cancerogenesis in the lung is far less important than inhalation of tobacco smoke. Furthermore there are some findings suggesting a causal association of particulate air pollution and malignant neoplasms of the stomach and prostate.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects; D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational / Q000009:adverse effects; D000397:Air Pollution; D001315:Australia; D001580:Benzopyrenes / Q000009:adverse effects; D002170:Canada; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced; D012907:Smoking / Q000150:complications; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D001580:Benzopyrenes
vernacular_title: Ubersicht Luftverunreinigung und Krebs.