Haokun Yuan, Rebecca D Kehm, Josephine M Daaboul, Susan E Lloyd, Jasmine A McDonald, Lina Mu, Parisa Tehranifar, Kai Zhang, Mary Beth Terry, Wan Yang
The impact of common environmental exposures in combinations with socioeconomic and lifestyle factors on cancer development, particularly for young adults, remains understudied. Here, we leveraged environmental and cancer incidence data collected in New York State at the county level to examine the association between 31 exposures and 10 common cancers (i.e., lung and bronchus, thyroid, colorectal, kidney and renal pelvis, melanoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and leukemia for both sexes; corpus uteri and female breast cancer; prostate cancer), for three age groups (25-49, 50-69, and 70-84 year-olds)...
March 26, 2024: Scientific Reports