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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Air pollution has been suggested as a potential modifiable risk factor for prostate cancer, but data remain inconsistent. Now a study of over
210,000 men from a UK biobank suggests that long-term exposure to air pollution increases prostate cancer risk. Data from 210,722 men who were free of prostate cancer at baseline were
collected from the UK Biobank. The mean age of these men was 56.6 years, and 10,841 men were diagnosed with incident prostate cancer during a total of 2,228,981 person-years of follow-up
monitoring (median follow-up duration 10.9 years). This information was cross-referenced with air pollution data from the UK government Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs,
which included ambient air pollutants, such as particulate matter with diameters ≤2.5 μm (PM2.5) and ≤10 μm (PM10), nitrogen oxides (NO2 and NO_x_), sulfur dioxide (SO2), benzene and ozone
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pollutants and risk of prostate cancer: a prospective cohort study. _Environ. Res._ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.121020 (2025) Article PubMed Google Scholar Download references
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Exposure to ambient air pollution increases risk. _Nat Rev Urol_ 22, 197 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-025-01021-x Download citation * Published: 13 March 2025 * Issue Date: April
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