Cancer-gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series) - Softcover

Epstein, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895033542 ISBN 13: 9780895033543

Publisher: Baywood Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

Award-winning author, Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., whose 1978 book ""The Politics of Cancer"" shook the political establishment by showing how the federal government had been corrupted by industrial polluters, has written a book that is sure to be of equal consequence. ""Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War"" is a groundbreaking new book. It warns that, contrary to three decades of promises, we are losing the winnable war against cancer, and that the hand-in-glove generals of the federal National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the private ""nonprofit"" American Cancer Society (ACS) have betrayed us.These institutions, Epstein alleges, have spent tens of billions of taxpayer and charity dollars primarily targeting silver-bullet cures, strategies that have largely failed, while virtually ignoring strategies for preventing cancer in the first place. As a result, cancer rates have escalated to epidemic proportions, now striking nearly one in every two men, and more than one in every three women. This translates into approximately 50 percent more cancer in men, and 20 percent more cancer in women over the course of just one generation.

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About the Author

SAMUEL S. EPSTEIN, M.D., professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, is a leading international expert on the environmental causes of cancer. His previous books include The Politics of Cancer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baywood Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895033542
• ISBN 13: 9780895033543
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400