The face of lung cancer is changing. Pope Leo XIV is a prime example of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once associated with smokers, an estimated 15 to 25 per cent of cases occur worldwide in never smokers. This raises questions about other risk factors, and one of the top concerns? Pesticide exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Peru, where Pope Leo XIV lived for over twenty years, cancer has become a public health priority. A new scientific study by the Institute of Research in France attributes the increased risk to pesticide contamination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pope Leo XIV began his missionary work in Chulucanas, before moving to Trujillo. In 2014, he returned to as Bishop of Chiclayo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To map the risk, researchers looked at where pesticides were used, weather patterns and how chemicals move through soil and the environment. They modeled 31 commonly used pesticides over six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The study found a strong geographical association between pesticide exposure and higher cancer rates in parts of Peru. Some of the areas where Pope Leo lived and worked were among those hotspots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But how do pesticides reach the general population? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kate Stevenson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The face of lung cancer is changing. Pope Leo XIV is a prime example of this. Once associated with smokers, an estimated 15 to 25 per cent of cases occur worldwide in never smokers. This raises questions about other risk factors, and one of the top concerns? Pesticide exposure. In Peru, where Pope Leo XIV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":96250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hDsW8uNeJpI","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bperucancroeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bperucancroint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96262,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96236\/revisions\/96262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
ST\u00c9PHANE BBERTANI<\/strong>
Lead Investigator<\/strong>
We found that Peruvian people were much more exposed, [they had] about 12 pesticide types in the body.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
ST\u00c9PHANE<\/strong> BBERTANI<\/strong>
Lead Investigator<\/strong>
We found that pesticides applied in one field can travel through the environment on 50 kilometers. So the pesticide risk can be transported.<\/em> They can be exposed by the water they drink or the food they eat or if they are living near a field where people are spraying pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
And in America, the Pope\u2019s homeland, there\u2019s major concern over the chemicals we ingest. Could pesticide residues remain on the food we eat?
DR. BARBARA GITLITZ<\/strong>
Keck School of Medicine of USC<\/strong>
When you think of fruits and vegetables and grains, you think that these are protective of the body. They\u2019re protective of cancer. They\u2019re protective of heart disease, etcetera. And that\u2019s well known. But these are also the components of our diets that might have the highest amounts of pesticide residues.<\/em>
With roughly one lung cancer diagnosis every two minutes, its something the research team at the Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute wants to investigate further. Especially since previous studies have primarily focused on smokers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DR. BARBARA GITLITZ<\/strong>
Keck School of Medicine of USC<\/strong>
You know, he really brings attention to this whole issue of lung cancer and never smokers. And, you know, I mean, no one who gets lung cancer deserves it, but there\u2019s always this stigma about smoking and lung cancer.<\/em>
Dr Gitlitz is hopeful that the news of Pope Leo\u2019s diagnosis will strengthen advocacy efforts for life-saving research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n