Mainstream Cancer Prevention Program

[Guest guest]

I went to the lecture tonight at the bottom of the page on the link far

below by the author of the book The Secret War on Cancer

(http://www.devradavis.com/ <http://www.devradavis.com/> ) Devra

at the Center of Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh.

She discussed how long it's been know that certain things like tobacco

and too much sun causes cancer and how in the mainstream medical field

now, these past studies are usually not a consideration.

She even brought up how the Nazis were against pesticides.

She discussed the difficulties of proving studies about environmental

causes of cancer unless some huge toxic even happens at one time. But

she is doing all she can with strong clinical studies on individuals or

small groups of people to prove causes.

(I was there mostly because it was put on by the Pittsburgh United

Jewish Federation Environmental Committee - my mom is Jewish - and I was

helping out, but it was pretty interesting.)

I notice on their " About Us " page they say :

The National Cancer Institute tells us that approximately two-thirdsof

all cancers are caused by things in the environment or the worldaround

us - yet relatively little research has been conducted on

therelationship between the environment and cancer.

The purpose of the Center for Environmental Oncology at theUniversity of

Pittsburgh Cancer Institute is to promote furtherresearch on the

environmental causes of cancer and educate the publicabout what we

already have learned. Specific goals of the Center forEnvironmental

Oncology include:

* promoting and performing research that identifies causes of cancer

in the environment;

*

* teaching health professionals how to look for environmental risk

factors in their patients;

*

* informing patients, their families and communities about cancer

risks and ways to reduce their chance of recurrence;

*

* providing healthy options regarding exercise, nutrition and

avoidable chemical exposures;

*

* evaluating public policies to determine how they affect the

environment and health; and

*

* testing ways of reducing cancer risk through " greening " buildings,

including hospitals.

I like their tab on MyEnvironmentalHealth.org too:

http://www.environmentaloncology.org/

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

[Guest guest]

Sounds like a good lecture. I don't know why we don't take the

environment more seriously. I wish we had leaders who would give

attention to our enviroment.

It seems crazy. I read articles all the time about dumping stuff. We

dump our chemical weapons in the ocean with no sense of responsibility.

We shoot down satellites so that they fall into the ocean. We find jet

fuel in out food supply.

wrote:

>

> I went to the lecture tonight at the bottom of the page on the link far

> below by the author of the book The Secret War on Cancer

> (http://www.devradavis.com/ <http://www.devradavis.com/>

> <http://www.devradavis.com/ <http://www.devradavis.com/>> ) Devra

> at the Center of Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh.

>

> She discussed how long it's been know that certain things like tobacco

> and too much sun causes cancer and how in the mainstream medical field

> now, these past studies are usually not a consideration.

>

> She even brought up how the Nazis were against pesticides.

>

> She discussed the difficulties of proving studies about environmental

> causes of cancer unless some huge toxic even happens at one time. But

> she is doing all she can with strong clinical studies on individuals or

> small groups of people to prove causes.

>

> (I was there mostly because it was put on by the Pittsburgh United

> Jewish Federation Environmental Committee - my mom is Jewish - and I was

> helping out, but it was pretty interesting.)

>

> I notice on their " About Us " page they say :

>

> The National Cancer Institute tells us that approximately two-thirdsof

> all cancers are caused by things in the environment or the worldaround

> us - yet relatively little research has been conducted on

> therelationship between the environment and cancer.

>

> The purpose of the Center for Environmental Oncology at theUniversity of

> Pittsburgh Cancer Institute is to promote furtherresearch on the

> environmental causes of cancer and educate the publicabout what we

> already have learned. Specific goals of the Center forEnvironmental

> Oncology include:

>

> * promoting and performing research that identifies causes of cancer

> in the environment;

> *

>

> * teaching health professionals how to look for environmental risk

> factors in their patients;

> *

>

> * informing patients, their families and communities about cancer

> risks and ways to reduce their chance of recurrence;

> *

>

> * providing healthy options regarding exercise, nutrition and

> avoidable chemical exposures;

> *

>

> * evaluating public policies to determine how they affect the

> environment and health; and

> *

>

> * testing ways of reducing cancer risk through " greening " buildings,

> including hospitals.

>

> I like their tab on MyEnvironmentalHealth.org too:

>

> http://www.environmentaloncology.org/

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

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

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

>

>

>

>