Bernard F. Fuemmeler

Creating outdoor air pollution exposome metrics for assessing breast and lung cancer risks in the United States.

BACKGROUND Air pollution (AP) is a known cause of lung cancer (LC); growing evidence links AP with breast cancer (BC) risk. Many epidemiological studies analyze PM2.5, though AP is a complex mixture of many pollutants. New metrics are necessary to fully represent the carcinogenic constituents of AP. Therefore, we aimed...