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-- more of them in prescription drugs and high-dose diagnostic radiation, especially pediatric CAT scans.
According to Epstein:
"NCI's silence on cancer prevention is in flagrant violation of the 1971 National Cancer Act's specific charge to disseminate cancer information to the public. This silence is in further violation of the 1988 Amendments to the National Cancer Program, which called for an expanded and intensified research program for the prevention of cancer caused by occupation or environmental exposure to carcinogens."
As a result, industry is encouraged to proliferate dangerous products, especially when Congress and regulatory agencies let them.
Examples of NCI's coverup and denial include:
-- "In 1983, the Department of Health and Human Services directed NCI to investigate the risk of thyroid cancer from I-131 radioactive fallout following atom bomb tests in Nevada in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
-- NCI released its report in 1997, based on data which had been available for over fourteen years, predicting up to 210,000 thyroid cancers from radioactive fallout. These cancers, whose incidence has almost doubled since 1973, could have been readily prevented had the NCI warned the public in time and advised them to take thyroid medication.
-- At a September 1999 hearing by the Senate Subcommittee on Government Affairs, former Senator John Glenn (D-OH) charged that the NCI investigation was plagued by lack of public participation and openness. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) charged that NCI's conduct was a travesty."
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