Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK

Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministersMore than 1,100 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of air pollution, the Guardian can reveal.Exposure to toxic air was attributed to 515 men and 590 women in the UK in 2022 getting adenocarcinoma - now the most dominant of the four main subtypes of lung cancer - an analysis by the World Health Organization's cancer agency found. Continue reading...