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Fine particulate matter shows no association with ovarian cancer across pooled cohorts
A systematic review of 145 studies of environmental chemical exposures and gynaecologic cancers found no pooled association between PM2.5 and ovarian cancer (HR 1.02 per 5 µg/m³, 95% CI 0.91–1.13) and only a marginal one for endometrial cancer (HR 1.02, 95% CI 0.99–1.05).
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate refines
China's clean-heating pilots cut winter PM2.5 most on the worst pollution days
Across 88 clean-heating pilot cities in northern China, heating-season PM2.5 fell by 3.01 micrograms per cubic metre on average, and by 5.96 on the most polluted days.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate refines
Landscape fire smoke accounted for 1.9% of deaths and $994.5 billion in losses
Across 1366 communities in ten countries and territories over 2000-19, smoke from landscape fires was estimated to account for 906,869 deaths and $994.5 billion in mortality-related economic losses.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate confirms
Residential greenspace linked to lower respiratory deaths from air pollution
A review of 14 cohort studies, mostly European, found residential greenspace associated with lower air-pollution-related respiratory mortality, through cleaner local air rather than reduced personal susceptibility to pollution.
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Health todayCancer new
Oral KRAS G12D inhibitor GFH375 shrank tumours in a third of pancreatic cancers
In 74 heavily pretreated patients with KRAS G12D-mutant advanced solid tumours, the oral inhibitor GFH375 produced confirmed responses in 35.1% of pancreatic cancers and 35.7% of lung cancers.
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Health todayCancer new
Wildfire smoke is linked to shorter survival in older US lung cancer patients
A SEER-Medicare cohort of 414,016 patients aged 65 or older with lung cancer found shorter overall survival with higher long-term exposure to wildfire-related fine particles.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate refines
Heat exposure is associated with a 26% higher risk of death from COPD
A meta-analysis of 36 observational studies found heat exposure associated with a 26% higher risk of death from COPD, as compared to 5% for non-fatal illness.
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Mortality long after Texas cyclones is raised only in socially vulnerable counties
In Texas between 1968 and 2018, tropical cyclone exposure raised all-cause mortality for years after landfall only in counties classified as socially vulnerable.
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