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The Secret History of the War on Cancer |
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Author:
Devra Davis
By Basic Books
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List Price: $27.95
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Product Description
From the National Book Award finalist, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer. The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. Left untouched were many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, or the global environment. Proof of how the world in which we live and work affects whether we get cancer was either overlooked or suppressed. This has been no accident. The War on Cancer was run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease. Filled with compelling personalities and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies--a legacy that persists to this day. This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain. A portion of the profits from this book will go to support research on cancer prevention.
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Causes of Cancer Have Been Known for 100 Years, 2008-10-14
From: www.BasilAndSpice.com
Author & Book Views On A Healthy Life!
Book Review: The Secret History of the War On Cancer (Basic Books, 2007)by Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H.,author of When Smoke Ran Like Water and The Secret History of the War on Cancer, is the Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health.
It seems to most of us that cancer is everywhere today. We all know someone who either has it or who has died from the disease. There's an underlying fear of it touching us, or even our children. In 1996, I was living with two young children in the center of an outbreak of neuroblastomas in local children. Only after reaching hospitals specializing in children's brain cancer treatment, parents of these children met each other and realized that our city had a problem. Our greatest fear had materialized, the source, never located.
Dr. Davis states that in America and England, one out of every two men and one out of every three women will develop cancer in their lifetime. In the U.S. today, there are more than 10 million cancer survivors. It is the primary cause of death for middle-aged persons, and the second cause of deaths in children. Usually aging is a significant factor in the cause of cancer, but this is not necessarily the case in today's world.
The rates of many cancers are increasing. In fact, the aging baby boomer generation has been referred to as a "tsunami" of cancer. "Cancer," Dr. Davis says, "Develops not because of one unique circumstance, whether hereditary or environmental, but out of the sum total of the goods and bads of our lives.....Where and when we are born and what we work and play with has a lot more to do with whether we get cancer than who our parents happen to be." Of those diagnosed with the disease, more than half will not live ten years.
I've often heard that the dangers of smoking were not known back in the 1960's. I used to crack the back seat window and breathe in the fresh, but frigid Michigan air, as my father smoked in the front of the car. Dr. Davis elaborates that for practically 100 years, the causes of cancer have been known: smoking, sunlight, industrial chemicals, hormones, bad nutrition, alcohol, and bad luck. In chapter two "Natural and Other Experiments," from The Secret History of the War on Cancer a reference is made to the Second International Congress of Scientific and Social Campaign Against Cancer from a memoir by experimentalist Isaac Berenblum. In 1936 cancer specialists from around the world convened in Brussels, Belgium. This meeting was a culmination of physician scientists, compiling all that they knew. Some cancer origins were identified as long ago as the Middle Ages, most work related: mining, painting, smelting, forging, distilling, curing, smoking, grinding, and cleaning.
Our bodies are a living history of where we were born, what we ate, and how we worked. Cancer prevention is certainly a key component to possibly life without the disease. I highly recommend The Secret History of the War on Cancer.
5 Stars
Read Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories" instead., 2008-09-09
Some points: Higher rates of cancer among those of African descent may be on account of especially lower vitamin D levels in them not supposedly greater exposure to carcinogens.
Doll and Peto, who rightly deserve the greatest credit for their research into and explanation of environmental factors with respect to cancers were, aside from cigarettes, chiefly concerned with diet. They implicated carbohydrate consumption NOT fats. Read Gary Taubes on this in his book, "Good Calories, Bad Calories." Davis is right to point out the cancer industry's willfull blindness to environmental factors - prefering, instead, the development of expensive and highly profitable treatments. A predictable feature of our greed driven medical industry. As equally predictable is her critique - one which is always looking for the latest mysterious chemical of which to make a new bugaboo. Meanwhile, the profundity of the gross overconsumption of carbohydrates is dismissed. So from the likes of Davis we hear the same worn advice to eat more fruit and avoid fats. Read Taubes.
Trust Us - The Search for a Cancer Cure is a Fraud!, 2008-07-18
I thought this was a good book because it effectively draws more attention to the fact that organized medicine is entirely different than it appears to be. Cancer cures are not what they are searching for, they are searching for new ways to make even greater fortunes on cancer treatments. Do a google search on the use of proton therapy for cancer and you'll see what I mean. It's very expensive and it hasn't proven to be any better than chemo or radiation (both of which take a horrible toll on the patient's immune system), but there are plans underway to build these devices at several university hospitals in the United States.
Numerous cures for cancer have already been discovered and effectively suppressed. Take the discoveries of Davis and Rawls, for example. Albert Roy Davis and Walter Rawls found through many years of research that North pole magnetic fields were extremely effective in halting the growth of cancer while strengthening the tissue surrounding the cancer, minimizing the chances of it spreading. The bodies own immune system could then take over and eliminate the cancer. South pole magnetic fields had the opposite effect. They increased the growth of cancer and caused it to spread more rapidly in the body. There's your scientific evidence for whether or not power lines can affect the growth of cancer. South pole magnetic fields do increase the growth of cancer, and power lines are one of many sources of South pole magnetic exposure in our environment. The magnet in your telephone receiver is likely another. Davis and Rawls wrote some great books that I highly recommend reading.
My best advice to anyone with cancer would be to do lots and lots of research on alternatives to conventional medicine, and use a combination of them. Hot peppers (90,000 HU or higher) are excellent for your health and they increase the effectiveness of supplements and herbs when taken together (look up Dr. Richard Schulze). Aloe Vera is another one to look into. What it can do for the body is truly amazing. Research has proven that it has very powerful anti-cancer effects. Aloe has even proven to be of enormous benefit to people with AIDS! Plus, it can be grown almost anywhere on earth, indoors or outdoors.
The Real Story on Cancer, 2008-06-04
No wonder people want to shut her down - she cites the truth about corporations and government and where the money goes (and should be going). And stop handing out those stupid pink ribbons & bears and address the real problems.
What we need to know., 2008-05-12
I found this to be a coherent and easy to read book in which Devra Davis presents a logical explanation of various kinds causes of cancer from industry to personal products. The general public needs this kind of information in order to avoid cancer causing materials as much as possible, and to learn the truth about some research. The statement that of all the billions of dollars that the Cancer Sociey has raised only ten per cent goes to research is an eye opener.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.19699400973
EAN: 9780465015665
ISBN: 0465015662
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Publisher: Basic Books
Studio: Basic Books |
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