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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Author: Devra Davis
Why has the ?War on Cancer? languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer?s basic causes?tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the general environment? This war has targeted the wrong enemies with the wrong weapons, failing to address well-known cancer causes.As epidemiolog...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465015689
ISBN-10: 0465015689
Publication Date: 2/23/2009
Pages: 560
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Scary... we already know the tobacco companies covered up and disseminated doubt about the harm of cigarettes for years, but it was much longer than anyone thought. Manufacturers of artificial sweeteners have followed this successful model to prolong lack of liability, and Devra Davis is alluding to the fact that we will witness a similar scenario from the cell phone companies.

She also chronicles the first documented incidences of cancers in textile workers, chimney sweeps and chemical workers, and how long it took for any employers to admit that theirs were definite causes. It's always been about the bottom line.

She stresses how so much of the research funding goes to trying to discover cures for cancer, but not causes and preventions. It ultimately rests on the individual to become informed of agents suspected to cause cancer and to limit their own exposure and that of their loved ones to these substances.

this book is a good start.


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