VIDEO: Without addressing global air pollution, lung cancer will be on the rise

ByUpal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH

ByMarley V. Ghizzone

In this video, Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH, executive director of research at LUNGevity Foundation, discusses the role of air pollution in the rise of lung cancer incidence.

A plenary talk at this year’s International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer highlighted the number of lung cancer deaths that can be attributed to particulate matter pollution.

“[It] was a great call to action for all of us that air pollution is here to stay unless we do something and lung cancer caused by air pollution is just going to be on the rise,” he said.

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Berg CD, et al. Plenary PL02.07. Presented at: International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer (virtual meeting); Sept. 8-14, 2021.

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Disclosures: Roy reports receiving research grants to his institution from Amgen, Astra Zeneca, Blueprint Medicine, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Genentech, G1 Therapeutics, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Merck and Takeda.

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