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| 2 Cancer Defined |
| We do not see nature with our own eyes but with our understanding and our hearts. William Hazlitt |
| Statistics about the war on cancer abound, but statistics can be very misleading. The truth is, cancer now strikes one in three and kills one in four, up from an incidence of one in four and a mortality rate of one in five in the 1950s. According to. Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, a professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center and a frequent critic of the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society, the key problem in the leadership of the cancer establishment is a professional mindset fixated on diagnosis, treatment, and research with relative indifference to cancer causes and prevention. While focusing largely on smoking and dietary fat restrictions, organizations have consistently discounted the role of avoidable exposure to industrial carcinogens in air, food, water, and the workplace. 1 Studies of cancer mortality statistics |
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