Research will examine whether air pollution is a factor in lung cancer
A researcher from Brock University is a part of a team investigating the relationship between air pollution and lung cancer.
Martin Tammemagi is part of a group that will create a tool to predict the risk of lung cancer in people who have never smoked.
There will be a focus on evaluating the effects of air pollution.
"The proportion of lung cancers in individuals who never smoked is growing and in some parts of the world outnumber lung cancer in individuals who smoked," he says. "Lung cancer in individuals who never smoked when considered as a separate group is the seventh leading cause of cancer deaths."
In the lung prediction model for people who smoked, several risk factors will be looked at, including the number of cigarettes smoked per day, the number of years smoking, race and ethnicity and age.
Tammemagi adds CT lung cancer screening has been shown to reduce the chance of death from lung cancer by over 20 percent in people considered high-risk.
In Canada, lung cancer kills more people than any other kind of cancer.
The four-year, $2.4 million project has received funding from the Terry Fox Research Institute.
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