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-- NCI also suppressed other information. At a 1996 San Francisco Town Hall breast cancer meeting, its former director Richard Klausner said that "low level diagnostic radiation does not demonstrate an increased risk." In fact, long-term studies on spinal curvature (scoliosis) patients showed this type radiation responsible for 70% of excess breast cancer mortality.
-- distinguished independent scientists, including Epstein, and public interest groups condemn NCI's and ACS' abysmal record on prevention. In fact, a Center for Science in the Public Interest 1994 press release said "(a) group of 24 scientists charged that the ACS was doing little to protect the public from cancer-causing chemicals in the environment and workplace."
They urged the organization to focus on prevention in its lobbying and educational campaigns.
Notably, NCI and ACS don't inform the public of increasing childhood cancers, accelerating at alarming rates. The Cancer Prevention Coalition's 2003 report said they rose by 32% from 1975 - 2000, calling cancer their leading cause of death after accidents.
Moreover, NCI shockingly claims "causes of childhood cancer are largely unknown," when, in fact, they're exposed to proliferating avoidable carcinogens.
In fact, NCI and ACS conflicts of interest are outrageous and deplorable, incestuously tied to corporations profiting from disease. Moreover, half of ACS' board members are doctors and scientists closely tied to NCI, both organizations stressing treatment, not prevention, including hazardous ones like mammography, toxic chemotherapy, dangerous cancer drugs, and unproved/unorthodox therapies.
In addition, NCI and ACS resist change, Epstein calling their record deplorable, saying:
"The verdict is unassailable. The ACS (and NCI share) responsibility for losing the winnable war against cancer." In principle, reforming them is "relatively easy and directly achievable."
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