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Carcinogenic Air Toxics Exposure and Their Cancer-Related Health Impacts in the United States by Zhou, Ying ;Li, Chaoyang ;Huijbregts, Mark A. J. ;Mumtaz, M. Moiz ;Coulombe, Roger A (editor) is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Carcinogenic Air Toxics Exposure and Their Cancer-Related Health Impacts in the United States about?
Public health protection from air pollution can be achieved more effectively by shifting from a single-pollutant approach to a multi-pollutant approach. To develop such multi-pollutant approaches, identifying which air pollutants are present most frequently is essential. This study aims to determine the frequently found carcinogenic air toxics or hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) combinations across the United States as well as to analyze the health impacts of developing cancer due to exposure to these HAPs. To identify the most commonly found carcinogenic air toxics combinations, we first identified HAPs with cancer risk greater than one in a million in more than 5% of the census tracts across the United States, based on the National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) by the U.S. EPA for year 2005. We then calculated the frequencies of their two-component (binary), and three-component (ternary) combinations. To quantify the cancer-related health impacts, we focused on the 10 most frequently found HAPs with national average cancer risk greater than one in a million. Their cancerrelated health impacts were calculated by converting lifetime cancer risk reported in NATA 2005 to years of
Who reads Carcinogenic Air Toxics Exposure and Their Cancer-Related Health Impacts in the United States?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.
- Author
- Zhou, Ying ;Li, Chaoyang ;Huijbregts, Mark A. J. ;Mumtaz, M. Moiz ;Coulombe, Roger A (editor)
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)