Misconceptions About the Causes of Cancer

$19.95U.S. paperback, ©2002
ISBN #0-88975-195-1

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Misconceptions about the Causes of Cancer tackles common misconceptions that underlie many fears about what causes cancer. Written by leading scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, the book examines scientific evidence from studies in humans; animal cancer tests; exposures to naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals; and the methods used to evaluate and regulate cancer risks.

• Cancer rates are not soaring in either Canada or the United States.
• Synthetic chemicals at levels found in the environment have not been shown to be an important cause of cancer.
• Reducing pesticide residues is not an effective way to prevent cancer.
• Potential cancer hazards are not primarily the result of human exposures to synthetic chemicals.
• The toxicology of the synthetic chemicals is not different from that of natural chemicals which make up 99.99 percent of chemical exposure.
• High dose animal cancer tests do not provide enough information to assess human cancer risks at the usual levels of exposure.
• Pesticides and other synthetic chemicals at levels found in the environment are not likely to be significant in disrupting human hormones.
• The current regulatory policy of low, hypothetical risks is not effective in advancing public health.

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