LINKS AND SUGGESTED READING

 

Suggested Reading BOOKS:
The Secret History of the War on Cancer

In The Secret History of the War on Cancer, Dr Davis uses materials from public, industrial and secret archives to show how leaders from industries that generated a host of cancer-causing materials and products have downplayed research on cancer prevention, and also kept findings on the environmental causes of the disease from gaining widespread attention or benefiting the general public. Some in the scientific community, government, industry and even cancer advocacy world have long understood that most cancer is not born, but made, arising as a result of the things that happen to people after their birth, but often steps that could be taken to significantly reduce or even eliminate cancer risks have been overlooked or actively suppressed out of fear and in favour of profit, costing millions of lives. The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis, Basic Books, October 2007

Breast cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence 

The report provides a review of the scientific evidence that certain chemicals may be implicated in breast cancer, and focuses on the role of hormone disrupting chemicals.

Read more at www.chemicalshealthmonitor.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suggested Reading

The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis, Basic Books, October
2007 (See above)

Cancer:101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic by Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey, and Anne Wordsworth
New Society Publishers, Summer 2007

Cancer as an Environmental Disease, Ed. P. Nicaolopoulou-Stamati, L. Hens, C.V. Howard and N. van Larebeke, Kluwer (2004)

Your Life in your Hands, Jane Plant, Virgin (2003)

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, Penguin (2000). First published 1952

Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health and a New environmental Strategy, J. Thornton, MIT Press ( 2000)

Our Stolen Future, T. Colborn, D. Dumanoski, and JP Myers, Abacus (1997)


Living Downstream , S. Steingraber, Virago (1999)

The Ecologist , Vol. 28 No 2 Mar/Apr (1998)

 

References
Institute of Cancer Research, Annual Report 1996-97Cancer Trends in England and Wales, 1950-1999, London 2001

A. Schweitzer, preface to Cancer: Nature, Cause and Cure by A.Berglas, Paris, 1957

W.A. Price, Nutrional and Physical Degeneration, London & NY, 1939

A.Berglas, Cancer: Nature, Cause and Cure, Paris, 1957

R. Dubos, Cancer: Disease of Civilization?, NY, 1960

Lichtenstein et al, NEJM, Vol 343, July 13, 2000

Written answer from Dept of Health to House of Lords, 23rd July, 2001

D. MacAuley, IMJ, Vol 93, No 6, Sept. 2000

The Sunday Times, 29 Nov, 1998

The Daily Telegraph, June 1, 2001

The Observer, December 2, 2001

The Evening Standard, 27th July 2001

Links

A paper about the evidence for environmental factors and breast cancer. library.silentspring.org/...

Chemical Health Monitor
www.chemicalshealthmonitor.org

The EM Radiation Research Trust
www.radiationresearch.org

Canadian Cancer Society
www.cancer.ca

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Center for Environmental Oncology
www.environmentaloncology.org

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
www.healthandenvironment.org

sciencereview.silentspring.org
Environment & Breast Cancer Science Review:

www.hazards.org/cancer/news
Occupational Cancer News (Hazards Magazine):

www.environmentalhealthnews.org
Environmental Health News

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/
Environmental Health Perspectives

www.foe.co.uk
Friends of The Earth

www.noharm.org
Health Care Without Harm

www.nomorebreastcancer.org.uk
No More Breast Cancer

www.ourstolenfuture.org
Our Stolen Future

www.pan-uk.org
Pesticide Action Network UK

www.preventcancernow.ca
Prevent Cancer Now

www.iarc.fr
The International Agency for Research on Cancer

www.pesticidescampaign.co.uk
UK Pesticides Campaign

www.wwf.org.uk/chemicals
World Wide Fund for Nature