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Stopping Cancer At The Source

by M. Sara Rosenthal, Ph.D.; co-published with Your Health Press

219 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #01-0146; ISBN 1-55212-746-X; US$29.95, C$34.50, EUR24.50, £17.50

This book explains how to help prevent cancer at the source, rather than finding cancer once it has already developed, or treating cancer once it has been diagnosed.

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About the Book Stopping Cancer at the Source is written in plain language and outlines how individuals can reduce their risk of developing cancer. It also discusses measures governments can implement to reduce the public's exposure to known carcinogens produced by industry. This book also states that we cannot rely on government to protect the public from cancer, and illustrates how the public can effectively lobby for changes that can improve public health, and reduce the incidence of cancer. According to the book, the term "primary prevention" refers to preventing disease at its origins. Right now, when the medical community discusses "preventing cancer" it really means detecting cancer through screening, other diagnostic tests or by self-exam. But primary prevention means changing the behaviour that causes the disease, or eliminating the cancer-causing substance (carcinogen) responsible for the disease. Rosenthal explains how to help prevent cancer at the source, rather than finding cancer once it already develops, or treating cancer once it has been diagnosed. Stopping Cancer at the Source will hopefully ignite public protest and outcry and help initiate the policy changes that scientists and public health advocates have been demanding since the lath 20th century. Rosenthal used numerous additional sources to update the information in the original 1995 Report. These sources include: The Environmental Defense Fund Occupational Hazards Reports; The Eighth Biennial Report On Great Lakes Water Quality, Under the Great lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978 to the Governments of the United States and Canada and the State and Provincial Governments of the Great Lakes Basin, released by the International Joint Commission in 1996. She also cites a unique 1998 report entitled: A State of Knowledge Report on the Effects of Human Health in the Great Lakes Basin, published by Health Canada and the Minister of Public Works and Services in cooperation with The Great Lakes Health Effects Program, Environmental Health Effects Division of Health Canada.

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Reviews "This book helped me understand the language of cancer and its processes. This book empowers us to act in our own best interest. It encourages us to take control where we can through our personal lifestyle changes and through social action to pressure governments and corporations to adopt cleaner environmental standards and cancer prevention strategies." — Complete Health magazine, Summer 2005

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About the Author Dr. M. Sara Rosenthal completed her Ph.D. in sociology and bioethics at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and is the author of more than 25 widely recommended health books. She is currently an assistant professor of bioethics in the Department of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky College of Medicine. For more information, visit www.sarahealth.com.

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Sample Excerpt

Primary Prevention of Cancer Fact sheet

1.     We already know how to completely stop the most common killer cancer: lung cancer. And yet, the war on tobacco has barely been waged; more young people are smoking than ever before, while environmental tobacco smoke continues to kill nonsmokers at staggering rates.

2.     We've all heard about the diet and cancer links. But few know the real reason fat is linked to cancer. It is because the more fat on your body, the more fat-soluble toxins, or carcinogens, are in your body. Active living and leaner eating can dramatically reduce the likelihood of cancer.

3.     A number of known and identifiable chemicals in our environment break down into an estrogen mimic. This has led to a staggering increase in estrogen-dependent cancers, such as breast, prostate, testicular, ovarian and endometrial cancers. Fat also makes estrogen, which, again, is another reason leaner frames can reduce cancer incidence.

4.     Most cancer is not genetic. No one is genetically wired to develop cancer out-of-the-blue. All so-called cancer genes are dormant at birth, and are switched on by lifestyle and/or environmental triggers. We must stop blaming our genes for cancer, and look at the triggers that switch the genes on instead.

5.     You may need to switch professions to stop cancer at the source. Workers in agriculture, mining, metal work and painting have five times the rate of occupational cancers. What we know so far about occupational cancers, and workplace carcinogens is in this book.

6.     Toxicity testing does not exist in the public record for nearly 75% of the top-volume chemicals in commercial use. In other words, we introduce chemicals into the environment without knowing if they are dangerous. Cancer activists believe all chemicals should be presumed unsafe until proven safe. This is known as the "Precautionary Principle" and is not yet in use in North America.

7.     The Great Lakes basin is home to some 36 million people, and is the largest freshwater body on earth. Those who live in Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, or Pennsylvania are at risk due to several hundred contaminants in the Great Lakes basin, a dozen of which have been identified as really serious, such as PCBs and dioxins. In terms of cancer, we are looking at higher incidences of breast, testicular and prostate cancers due to the "estrogenic" toxins that are rampant in Great Lakes waters. Bladder, thyroid, and colon cancer are also elevated in these regions.

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