Cancer-gate

How to Win the Losing Cancer War

Samuel Epstein, Vicente Navarro

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Baywood Publishing Company Inc
15 June 2005

Health systems & services; Oncology

Series: Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series

Award-winning author, Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., whose 1978 book """"The Politics of Cancer"""" shook the political establishment by showing how the federal government had been corrupted by industrial polluters, has written a book that is sure to be of equal consequence. """"Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War"""" is a groundbreaking new book. It warns that, contrary to three decades of promises, we are losing the winnable war against cancer, and that the hand-in-glove generals of the federal National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the private """"nonprofit"""" American Cancer Society (ACS) have betrayed us.

These institutions, Epstein alleges, have spent tens of billions of taxpayer and charity dollars primarily targeting silver-bullet cures, strategies that have largely failed, while virtually ignoring strategies for preventing cancer in the first place. As a result, cancer rates have escalated to epidemic proportions, now striking nearly one in every two men, and more than one in every three women. This translates into approximately 50 percent more cancer in men, and 20 percent more cancer in women over the course of just one generation.

By: Samuel Epstein
Series edited by: Vicente Navarro
Imprint: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780895033109
ISBN 10: 0895033100
Series: Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 15 June 2005
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

SAMUEL S. EPSTEIN, M.D., professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, is a leading international expert on the environmental causes of cancer. His previous books include The Politics of Cancer.