Data presented at the 2025 American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada suggest a link between plastics-processing waste release and bladder cancer incidence.
In an interview with Urology Times®, co-author Laura E. Davis, MD, shares key insights on the study’s background and findings.
“We all know that there’s a component of environmental exposure, as far as exposure to chemicals, that leads to bladder cancer. Microplastics are a really hot topic right now. People know that they’re bad and they’re everywhere, but that’s about the extent of what we know about them. We do know that they release some chemicals that can leach into the air and water. So, we thought, let’s put 2 and 2 together—perhaps there might be a correlation with microplastics, or in the case of our study,…