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Alarming amount of microplastics found in prostate cancer tumours - Studies have identified microplastics in nearly every human organ, as well as in body fluids and the placenta ...

Researchers have detected microplastics in nearly all prostate cancer tumors examined in a new study. Tumor tissue contained about 2.5 times more plastic than nearby healthy prostate tissue.

Medical researchers from NYU Langone Health have detected microplastics in nearly all prostate cancer tumours examined in a ...

Microplastics have now been found inside most prostate cancer tumors — and at strikingly higher levels than in healthy tissue ...

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While experts stress the findings are early and do not prove cause and effect, they add to growing concern about how widespread plastic exposure may affect the body over time.