Prostate cancer tumors contain twice as much microplastic as healthy tissue

Prostate cancer affects approximately one in eight men in the US throughout their lifetime, with potential health implications from microplastic exposure.

In the tissue of men already carrying cancer, scientists at NYU Langone have found something that was never meant to be there: plastic, and more of it than in the healthy cells nearby. Researchers examining prostate tumors discovered microplastic concentrations more than twice as high as those in benign tissue from the same patients — the first such finding in the United States to draw a direct line between microplastic exposure and prostate cancer. The discovery does not yet prove causation, but it transforms a long-held environmental anxiety into a measurable biological reality, arriving at

Prostate cancer tumors contain twice as much microplastic as healthy tissue

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