Air pollution and breast cancer: a review

AJ White, PT Bradshaw, GB Hamra - Current epidemiology reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among
US women. Air pollution is a pervasive mixture of chemicals containing carcinogenic …

Metallic air pollutants and breast cancer risk in a nationwide cohort study

AJ White, KM O'Brien, NM Niehoff, R Carroll… - …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: Toxic metals show evidence of carcinogenic and estrogenic properties.
However, little is known about the relationship between airborne metals and breast cancer …

Residential exposure to estrogen disrupting hazardous air pollutants and breast cancer risk: the California Teachers Study

R Liu, DO Nelson, S Hurley, A Hertz, P Reynolds - Epidemiology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Background: Some studies show increased breast cancer risk from exposure to
xenoestrogens, but few have explored exposures via ambient air, which could impact large …

[HTML][HTML] Hazardous air pollutants and breast cancer risk in California teachers: a cohort study

E Garcia, S Hurley, DO Nelson, A Hertz… - Environmental Health, 2015 - Springer
Background Studies suggest that higher breast cancer rates in urban areas persist after
accounting for the prevalence of known risk factors, leading to speculation that urban …

Bayesian g-computation for estimating impacts of interventions on exposure mixtures: demonstration with metals from coal-fired power plants and birth weight

AP Keil, JP Buckley… - American journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The importance of studying the health impacts of exposure mixtures is increasingly being
recognized, but such research presents many methodological and interpretation difficulties …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning–driven identification of early-life air toxic combinations associated with childhood asthma outcomes

YC Li, HHL Hsu, Y Chun, PH Chiu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Air pollution is a well-known contributor to asthma. Air toxics are hazardous air pollutants
that cause or may cause serious health effects. Although individual air toxics have been …

Disaggregating data on Asian American and Pacific Islander women to provide new insights on potential exposures to hazardous air pollutants in California

T Quach, R Liu, DO Nelson, S Hurley… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2014 - AACR
Abstract Background: The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) population is
heterogeneous and rapidly growing in the United States, with a high proportion …

[HTML][HTML] Hazardous air pollutants and telomere length in the Sister Study

NM Niehoff, MD Gammon, AP Keil… - Environmental …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: Telomeres are vital for genomic integrity, and telomere length has been linked
to many adverse health outcomes. Some hazardous air pollutants or air toxics increase …

Differences in environmental exposure assignment due to residential mobility among children with a central nervous system tumor: Texas, 1995–2009

HE Danysh, LE Mitchell, K Zhang… - Journal of Exposure …, 2017 - nature.com
In epidemiologic studies of childhood cancer, environmental exposures are often assigned
based on either residence at birth or diagnosis without considering the impact of residential …

Concomitant exposure to area-level poverty, ambient air volatile organic compounds, and cardiometabolic dysfunction: a cross-sectional study of US adolescents

ED Shenassa, AD Williams - Annals of Epidemiology, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose A key to better understanding the influence of the place of residence on
cardiometabolic function is the effect of concomitant exposure to both air pollution and …