Great author interview regarding the new book "The Secret History of the War on Cancer"

[Up2Late]

This book is bound to be "controversial" for the truths it tells about some very large corporations. I'd suspected this was the case for years, especially since I found out a few years ago that from age 4 to 9 I lives less than a mile from one of THREE EPA "Superfund" sites in my hometown in Indiana where all our short lived Cats died of cancerous stomach tumors.

Fighting wrong enemy in cancer 'war'

Author Devra Davis says in her new book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, we're going about it the wrong way -- treating the disease, while all but ignoring the lifestyle and environmental factors that lead to a greater risk of getting cancer in the first place. <http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/09/27/fighting_wrong_enemy_in_war_on_cancer/>

More reviews at these links:

<http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-War-Cancer/dp/0465015662/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-9349456-3105249?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191142456&sr=8-1>

Book Description
From the National Book Award finalist, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer.

The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. Left untouched were many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, or the global environment. Proof of how the world in which we live and work affects whether we get cancer was either overlooked or suppressed.

This has been no accident.

The War on Cancer was run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease. Filled with compelling personalities and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies--a legacy that persists to this day.

This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain.

A portion of the profits from this book will go to support research on cancer prevention.

About the Author
Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. She was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board in 1994 and also served as Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Science. She lives in Pittsburgh.

<http://www.nyas.org/events/eventDetail.asp?eventID=10355&date=11/16/2007%206:30:00%20PM>

<http://www.environmentaloncology.org/secrethistorycancer2.htm>

<http://www.upmc.com/Communications/MediaRelations/NewsReleaseArchives/2007/September/DDBookLaunch.htm>

<http://www.enviroblog.org/2007/09/history-of-the-war-on-cancer-n.htm>

[hedgehog]

1. I read her first book, When Smoke ran Like Water

Now I wonder how much my mother's COPD and heart troubles come from smoking and how much from growing up in an old steel town!

[groovedaddy]

2. Check out the work of Royal Rife

http://www.rife.org/