Research Catalog

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Description

1. xxi, 377 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "Cancer-Gate details how the NCI and ACS are sitting on mountains of information on environmental and other avoidable causes of cancer, while failing to act on this and make it available to Congress and the public. This silence even extends to frank suppression of information." "Cancer-Gate explains how we can win the war against cancer with strategies including "right-to-know" laws, ensuring public dissemination of critical information on environmental carcinogens and other avoidable causes of cancer, and Congressional reform and oversight to ensure that the NCI protects the public rather than special interests."
2. "Finally, Cancer-Gate tells you, the reader, how to fight back by arming yourself with the information you need to protect your family from everyday carcinogens, and how to become an activist in the war against cancer."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. Policy, politics, health, and medicine series

Uniform title

1. Policy, politics, health, and medicine series.

Subject

1. National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
2. American Cancer Society
3. American Cancer Society
4. Cancer > Government policy > United States
5. Cancer > Prevention
6. Medical policy
7. Industries
8. Politics, Practical
9. Neoplasms > prevention & control
10. Carcinogens, Environmental > adverse effects
11. Food Contamination
12. Health Policy
13. Industry
14. Neoplasms > etiology
15. Politics
16. United States Government Agencies
17. politics
18. Politics, Practical
19. Medical policy
20. Industries
21. Cancer > Government policy
22. Cancer > Prevention
23. Kanker
24. Beleidsvorming
25. United States

Contents

1. Losing the war against cancer: who's to blame and what to do about it -- Debate on policies of the national cancer institute, American Cancer Society, and American College of Radiology -- Dangers and unreliability of mammography: breast examination is a safe, effective, and practical alternative -- Evaluation of the national cancer program and proposed reforms -- American Cancer Society: the world's wealthiest "nonprofit" institution -- Legislative proposals for reversing the cancer epidemic and controlling run-away industrial technologies -- The crisis in U.S. and international cancer policy -- Strategies for the stop cancer campaign -- REACH: an unprecedented science-based European initiative for regulating industrial chemicals -- Debate on safety of recombinant bovine growth hormone -- Questions and answers on synthetic bovine growth hormones -- Unlabeled milk from cows treated with biosynthetic growth hormones: a case of regulatory abdication -- The chemical jungle: today's beef industry -- Preventing pathogenic food poisoning: sanitation, not irradiation -- Pro-industry bias in science -- Corporate crime: why we cannot trust industry-derived safety studies -- Industrial risks of colorectal cancer -- Industrial risks of breast cancer.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-350) and index.