Symbiosis www.symbiosisonlinepublishing.com ISSN Online: 2372-0921 Case Report Cancer Science & Research: Open Access Open Access Determination of Heavy Metals and Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Oncological Patients: A Pilot Study V Petrosino1*, M Coletta2 and D Testa2 1ASL Salerno, International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE) , Salerno, Italy 2ENT Clinic, University of Naples, via S. Pansini, 5,80131 Naples, Italy Received: August 21, 2019; Accepted: September 30, 2019; Published: October 03, 2019 *Corresponding author: Petrosino Vincenzo, ASL Salerno, International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE) , Salerno, Italy, E-mail: petro-
[email protected] The environment is the surroundings in which we live and Abstract with which we continuously interact. Everyone has a very close A large number of studies in the literature increasingly suggest a relationship with the environment from which we can get any causal relationship between the onset of cancer and other diseases and kind of noxae that, acting in different ways on our body, can cause the exposure to environmental pollutants, particularly heavy metals, – through various mechanisms, often still unknown – a number of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other products. Environmental short-, medium- and long-term changes. pollution seems to be an important determinant for the onset of several diseases, so special attention must be paid to this question. A large number of studies in the literature increasingly suggest a causal relationship between the onset of cancer and Recently, some authors, by measuring heavy metals in cancer tissue, have come to the conclusion that these metals can accumulate other diseases and the exposure to environmental pollutants, in tumor tissue and, through different mechanisms and actions, can particularly heavy metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and stimulate the progression of breast cancers and reduce the sensitivity other products.