According to the principal investigator of this research project, Juan Pedro Arrebola, from the Biohealth Research Institute (IBS), «there is currently an increasing tendency in the impact of a diversity of different types of cancer, which can be attributed in part to the influence of several environmental factors, such as
exposure to certain chemical pollutants.»
The aim of this study was to analyse whether
the exposure to certain chemical pollutants, accumulated over a long period of time, could be related to the risk of suffering from cancer.