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Long-term exposure to wildfires and cancer incidence in Canada (thelancet.com)
3 points by WaitWaitWha on May 10, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Well I’m in trouble. I think I’ve been through three extremely smokey wildfire summers over the past fifteen years.

> … members exposed to a wildfire within 50 km of residential locations in the past 10 years had a 4·9% relatively higher incidence … of lung cancer than unexposed populations, and a 10% relatively higher incidence … of brain tumours




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