According to a study out of Toronto, workplace exposure to diesel and gasoline engine exhausts and the risk of colorectal cancer in Canadian men. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies diesel exhaust as carcinogenic and gasoline exhaust as a possible carcinogenic. The exhaust causes lung cancer. The data was taken from a population-based case-control study with participants taken from seven Canadian provinces from 1994-1997.
The researchers accounted for adjusted for age, province, use of proxy respondents, smoking, body-mass index, physical activity, intake of alcohol, processed meats, and occupational exposure to asbestos and aromatic amines.
There were no significant associations found for gasoline exhaust in this study. However, for those exposed to diesel exhaust, there were some important results. Relative to the unexposed, elevated risks were observed among subjects ever exposed to high concentration levels of diesel emissions for colorectal cancer and rectal cancer, but not colon cancer. More than ten years of diesel exposure equaled an association with a high risk of rectal cancer.
For more information, read the full study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712563/
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