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Air pollution is fuelling a rise in the commonest form of lung cancer among non-smokers, hitting women and people in southeast Asia particularly hard, according to a study published on Tuesday.
Lung cancer is the commonest form of the disease, with 2.5 million people diagnosed in 2022, said the study, published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal on World Cancer Day.
Most of them were men but there was a growing share of nearly a million cases among women.
One key subtype of lung cancer — adenocarcinoma — has become predominant among women in 185 countries, the authors wrote in the Chinese-funded study.
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