EESA10H3 Lecture : Lecture 1 Video

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Everyday carcinogens: acting for prevention in the face of scientific uncertainty (featured by. And what it does show is that non-tobacco related cancers have been rising in incidence among all age groups from infants up to the elderly, among all ethnicities and among both sexes. And these increases are definitely apparent since the early "70s. now changes in hereditary patterns can"t account for these increases in cancer. We"re not developing more tumors because we are now sprouting new cancer genes. It is true that some of the apparent rise in cancers is attributable to better and earlier screening, but the most swiftly accelerating rates are among those cancers for which we have no effective screening tools. These include childhood cancers which have more than doubled since i was born in 1959 and have jumped ten percent in the last decade alone. we have no life-style factors that we can attribute to the diseases i"ve just talked about.

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