![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a cancer researcher myself, I found the book to be informative and interesting, but the title is a misnomer. In this new release, she concentrates on cancer as a by-product of industry greed and governmental negligence. Her previous book, When smoke ran like water ( 1), a 2002 finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction, documented the relationship between air pollution and a host of human diseases. She insists that progress has been lost as governments placate and cover up for industries that pollute and contaminate the environment with carcinogens and that more attention should be focused on environmental risks for this disease, such as tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and workplace carcinogen exposure. Epidemiologist Devra Davis, director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and an environmental advisor to Newsweek, argues in her new book, The secret history of the war on cancer, that this effort has not focused on the “right” battles. Given these staggering numbers, it’s no wonder that people are beginning to question why the War on Cancer, declared by President Nixon in 1971, has not led to the elimination of this disease. In 2007, the American Cancer Society reported 12 million new cancer cases worldwide and 7.6 million cancer deaths. ![]()
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