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Dana Loomis, Yann Grosse, Béatrice Lauby-Secretan, Fatiha El Ghissassi, Véronique Bouvard, Lamia Benbrahim-Tallaa, Neela Guha, Robert Baan, Heidi Mattock, Kurt Straif

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Environ. Risques Santé

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347-352

IARC Evaluation of the Carcinogenicity of Outdoor Air Pollution Page 1 Centre international de Recherche sur le Cancer Lyon, France IARC Evaluation of the Carcinogenicity of Outdoor Air Pollution Dana Loomis, PhD Page 2 IARC Monograph 109, Outdoor Air Pollution Lyon, 7-18 October 2013 Evaluation •Outdoor air pollution is carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) •Particulate matter in outdoor air pollution is carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) Summary: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(13)70487-X/fulltext Page 3 The IARC Monographs (http://monographs.iarc.fr/indexfr.php) • Evaluate factors capable of causing cancer in humans • Environmental & occupational exposures • Physical, chemical & biologic agents • Lifestyle factors • “The Encyclopedia of Carcinogens” • More than 900 agents evaluated since 1971 • >100 carcinogenic to humans • >300 probably or possibly carcinogenic • …