Our climate is changing regularly. Temperatures, wildfires, the magnitude and intensity of various natural disasters are constantly rising, and air quality is declining. Adverse climate change will also increase the risk of cancer, especially of the lungs, skin and intestines.
In a study published in the journal The Lancet Oncology, experts highlighted the harmful effects of global warming on a variety of topics.
Environmental pollution, radioactivity of ultraviolet rays, air pollution, infectious germs, disturbances in food and water storage, etc. are taken into consideration in this study.
Researchers claim that the biggest obstacle to tackling cancer worldwide will be the chaos in the medical system. Cancer detection, its treatment, care are all complex processes.
Robert A. Hyatt, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the study, said the fight against global climate change was well under way, but there was not enough effort among people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate change has a major impact on public health. And the adverse effects of climate change will not stop suddenly, so the detrimental effects on human health will continue into the distant future. Especially due to high temperature of the environment, polluted air, fires, etc., the risk of various diseases of human respiratory and heart diseases increases at a fatal rate.
The researchers added that the main environmental factors that increase the risk of cancer are air pollution, radioactivity of ultraviolet rays, toxic fumes from commercial factories and disturbances in food and water supplies.
Statistics show that lung cancer is already the most deadly. And increasing speeds in air pollution will further increase its lethality. It is estimated that air pollution alone will be responsible for 15 percent of cancers at one time.
At present, people in all medical fields around the world have to step in to control the coronavirus. As a result, research on cancer has declined, and the development of treatment for the disease has stalled.