Risk factors

Factors that may increase the risk of nasal and paranasal tumors include:

• Smoking and being around people who are smoking
• Breathing in air pollution
• Long-term exposure to chemicals and irritants in the air at work, such as wood dust, fumes from glue, rubbing alcohol and formaldehyde, and dust from flour, chromium and nickel
• Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), which is a common sexually transmitted infection