“Climate change”-A potential risk factor for cancer ?

17 April 2021, Version 2
This content is an early or alternative research output and has not been peer-reviewed by Cambridge University Press at the time of posting.

Abstract

Cancer, mainly known for abnormal growth and altered cellular function is now the second prominent reason of death globally. There are so many factors responsible for this disease and one of the major factors is climate change. The deviations of weather patterns that is definitely as a result of human activities over long periods of times generally referred as climate change. The consequence’s, increasing temperature, melting of ice, rising of sea levels, increasing wind speed, changes in rainfall patterns etc. Due to all these concerns, the most important resource for a healthy life– Air, Water, and Food are gets disturbed and as a results causes several health related problems. Researches related to this field also demonstrated that climate change played critical role over cancer risk and cancer surveillance. It increases the amount of carcinogens and also its blocks patients’ access to cancer hospitality. Thus it can be potent risk factor.

Keywords

Climate change
Health impacts
Cancer

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