17 October 2013

IARC: Outdoor air pollution a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths

Lyon/Geneva, 17 October 2013 – The specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), announced today that it has classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1).
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Published in section: IARC News

Publication date: 17 October, 2013, 0:00

Direct link: https://www.iarc.who.int/news-events/iarc-outdoor-air-pollution-a-leading-environmental-cause-of-cancer-deaths/

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