ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|186 pages
Cancer Policy and Politics
chapter Chapter 6|18 pages
Legislative Proposals for Reversing the Cancer Epidemic and Controlling Run-Away Industrial Technologies
chapter Chapter 9|34 pages
Reach: An Unprecedented Science-Based European Initiative for Regulating Industrial Chemicals
part II|47 pages
Hidden Carcinogens in Food
chapter Chapter 12|10 pages
Unlabeled Milk from Cows Treated with Biosynthetic Growth Hormones: A Case of Regulatory Abdication
part III|47 pages
Pro-Industry Bias, Corporate Crime, and Poorly Recognized Industrial Risks of Cancer
part IV|15 pages
Epilogue