Air Pollution affects Lung Cancer Survival
b'Patients exposed to air pollution after diagnosis of lung cancer have shorter survival, in particular those patients with early-stage non-small cell cancers (specially adenocarcinomas), according to a study published by Thorax and conducted by researchers from the Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California.\\n\\nThe first study of this kind was based on a population of over 300 thousand patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer over more than two decades.\\n\\nIn this podcast, Dr Jaime Hart, from the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women\\u2019s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and author of the Thorax editorial about this study, tells Dr Jennifer Quint the details of this study and its impact on how air pollution is considered by general population.\\n\\nRead the original article \\u2019Air pollution affects lung cancer survival\\u2019, which corresponding author is Dr Sandrah P Eckel, here:\\nhttp://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2016/06/22/thoraxjnl-2015-207927.full.\\n\\nThe editorial is available here:\\nhttp://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2016/07/20/thoraxjnl-2016-208967.full.'