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Dirty air and lung cancer: Understanding the inflammatory mechanism

A new mechanism explains how dirty air can lead to lung cancer. An inflammatory process in the lungs fuels tumor growth.

Particulate matter in polluted air can promote the development of lung cancer in people with a certain lung cancer-specific mutation. That does not happen, as was always thought, because more DNA damage …

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