Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers More than 1,100 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of air pollution, the Guardian can reveal. Exposure to toxic air was attributed to 515 men and 590 women in the UK in 2022 getting adenocarcinoma - now the most dominant of the four main subtypes of lung cancer - an analysis by the World Health Organization's cancer agency found.
Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK
The Guardian - 9 Feb 2025 17:08
Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers More than 1,100 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of air pollution, the Guardian can reveal. Exposure to toxic air was attributed to 515 men and 590 women in the UK in 2022 getting adenocarcinoma - now the most dominant of the four main subtypes of lung cancer - an analysis by the World Health Organization's cancer agency found.
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