Risk of Near Highway Cancer Exposures Study

Risk of Near Highway Cancer Exposures Study ‘The last thing Fouad Boutrous would have wished on the people of his community…’ -A last minute study by NogenicsAbstract This paper summarizes a multitude of international studies conducted on the link... More

Risk of Near Highway Cancer Exposures Study ‘The last thing Fouad Boutrous would have wished on the people of his community…’ -A last minute study by NogenicsAbstract This paper summarizes a multitude of international studies conducted on the link between lung cancer and ‘Near Highway Pollutants’. The evident and distinct set of freshly-emitted air pollutants downwind from major highways, motorways, and freeways include elevated levels of ultrafine particulates (UFP), black carbon (BC), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), and carbon monoxide (CO). People living or otherwise spending substantial time within about 200 m of highways are exposed to these cancer causing pollutants more so than persons living at a greater distance, even compared to living on busy urban streets. Evidence of cancer exposure due to those pollutants arises from studies that assess proximity to highways and the level of pollutants being generated. Background The Harvard University ‘Six-Cities Study’ of 1993 [1] Less