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As a result, the war on cancer is being lost, not won, because profits take precedence over public health, a testimony to corrupted priorities and criminal politicians who enforce them.
Cancer has proliferated because of the dramatic increase in carcinogenic environmental and workplace substances, Epstein saying in the preface to his 1978 book:
"Cancer is caused mainly by exposure to chemical or physical agents in the environment. The more of a carcinogen present in the human environment, hence the greater the exposure to it, the greater the chance of developing cancer from it. There is no known method for measuring or predicting a 'safe' level of exposure to any carcinogen below which cancer will result in any individual or population group."
In 1978, "the cancer establishment" and OCHA estimated 38% of cancer deaths from 1978 - 2008 would be linked to "high exposure" occupational carcinogens from asbestos, arsenic, benzene, chromium, nickel oxides, and petroleum fractions, focusing solely on their harm to workers, as well as omitting many others, including radiation.
Epstein documented occupational, environmental, prescription drug, and consumer product carcinogens. Examples include:
-- diethanolamine (DEA) absorbed in the skin, used in cosmetics, soaps and toiletries;
-- permanent and semi-perminent dark hair dye, producing 20% of female non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in America;
-- food colorings, pesticides, fungicides, nitrites, and hormones in foods;
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