Plastic Pollution is Everywhere: Here’s What to Know

Millions of plastic particles are ingested by people every year. What does that mean for our health and the environment? As part of Duke Health’s Conversations in Cancer video series, Diane Reidy-Lagunes, MD, a medical oncologist at Duke Health, talks to Jason Somarelli, an assistant professor in medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine and a Duke Cancer Institute researcher who studies the effects of microplastics. For more information, watch the video and see this Duke Health story.