BIOMONITORING: EXPOSURE TO CHEMICALS AND CANCER DEVELOPMENT. INVESTIGATIONS IN 'TERRA DEI FUOCHI'

摘要

Since 2015 a biomonitoring project has been conducted in a specific area of the Campania Region so called "Terra dei Fuochi", where in association to illegal dumping waste an increase of cancer incidence has been reported in 2006~1 and thereafter ~23. In 2014 preliminary data on the persistent detection of contaminants in critical area of the Campania Region have been reported~4. Moreover, association of high levels of natural arsenic in the volcanic soil of the Area Flegrea has been associated to high incidence of bladder cancer~5.