PMID- 24636232
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150615
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1000-467X (Print)
IS  - 1944-446X (Electronic)
IS  - 1944-446X (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 4
DP  - 2014 Apr
TI  - A bird's eye view of the air pollution-cancer link in China.
PG  - 176-88
LID - 10.5732/cjc.014.10030 [doi]
AB  - Air pollution in China comes from multiple sources, including coal consumption, 
      construction and industrial dust, and vehicle exhaust. Coal consumption in 
      particular directly determines the emissions of three major air pollutants: dust, 
      sulfur dioxide (SO(2)), and nitrogen oxide (NOx). The rapidly increasing number 
      of civilian vehicles is expected to bring NOx emission to a very high level. 
      Contrary to expectations, however, existing data show that the concentrations of 
      major pollutants [particulate matter-10 (PM10), SO(2), and nitrogen dioxide 
      (NO(2))] in several large Chinese cities have declined during the past decades, 
      though they still exceed the national standards of ambient air quality. Archived 
      data from China does not fully support that the concentrations of pollutants 
      directly depend on local emissions, but this is likely due to inaccurate 
      measurement of pollutants. Analyses on the cancer registry data show that cancer 
      burden related to air pollution is on the rise in China and will likely increase 
      further, but there is a lack of data to accurately predict the cancer burden. 
      Past experience from other countries has sounded alarm of the link between air 
      pollution and cancer. The quantitative association requires dedicated research as 
      well as establishment of needed monitoring infrastructures and cancer registries. 
      The air pollution-cancer link is a serious public health issue that needs urgent 
      investigation.
FAU - Huang, Yu-Bei
AU  - Huang YB
AD  - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer 
      Institute and Hospital, Tianjin 300060, P. R. China. chenkexin1963@yahoo.com, 
      wzhang@mdanderson.org.
FAU - Song, Feng-Ju
AU  - Song FJ
FAU - Liu, Qun
AU  - Liu Q
FAU - Li, Wei-Qin
AU  - Li WQ
FAU - Zhang, Wei
AU  - Zhang W
FAU - Chen, Ke-Xin
AU  - Chen KX
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140318
PL  - England
TA  - Chin J Cancer
JT  - Chinese journal of cancer
JID - 101498232
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Carcinogens, Environmental)
RN  - 0 (Coal)
RN  - 0 (Particulate Matter)
RN  - 0 (Vehicle Emissions)
RN  - 0UZA3422Q4 (Sulfur Dioxide)
RN  - S7G510RUBH (Nitrogen Dioxide)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/*toxicity
MH  - Air Pollution/*adverse effects
MH  - Carcinogens, Environmental/*toxicity
MH  - China
MH  - Coal
MH  - Humans
MH  - Neoplasms/*etiology
MH  - Nitrogen Dioxide/toxicity
MH  - Particulate Matter/toxicity
MH  - Sulfur Dioxide/toxicity
MH  - Vehicle Emissions/toxicity
PMC - PMC3975183
EDAT- 2014/03/19 06:00
MHDA- 2015/06/16 06:00
PMCR- 2014/04/01
CRDT- 2014/03/19 06:00
PHST- 2014/03/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/03/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/06/16 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2014/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - cjc.014.10030 [pii]
AID - cjc-33-04-176 [pii]
AID - 10.5732/cjc.014.10030 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chin J Cancer. 2014 Apr;33(4):176-88. doi: 10.5732/cjc.014.10030. Epub 2014 Mar 
      18.