The Invisible Inhalant: How Wildfire Smoke is Redefining Systemic Oncology
For decades, the public health narrative surrounding oncology was dominated by a singular, controllable variable: tobacco. As global smoking rates steadily decline, ecological economics and atmospheric sciences are converging to reveal a new, involuntary successor. Driven by climate-accelerated fire seasons, the proliferation of carcinogenic particulate matter is forcibly rewriting the epidemiology of cancer. We are…