Incidence of lung cancer and air pollution in boroughs of Chile: an ecological study

• DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2021.1247
• Publication Date: 2021-06-10T15:12:06Z
• Authors: Jorge Sapunar-Zen...; Pedro Ferrer-Rosende; Christian Caglevic
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 13. Climate action; Research; 11. Sustainability; 3. Good health

Lung cancer frequency has been progressively increasing; this linked to the use of inhaled tobacco and air pollution.In Chile, pollution reached alarming levels due motor vehicle traffic, firewood burning for heating minerals in urban areas; reason, our objective was evaluate association between incidence lung concentration main pollutants monitored country.We carried out a cross-sectional ecological study that evaluated average 5-year period (2015-2019) with annual six atmospheric 5 years prior 14 Chilean boroughs, using population beneficiaries Fundación Arturo-López-Pérez Cancer Institute.The annualised 9.77 per 100,000 it varied significantly within boroughs studied.When evaluating relationship lungcancer pollutants, we only found direct significant correlation level respirable particulates 2.5 adenocarcinomas (β: 0.16; p: 0.023).