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Article: In memory of Colette. (five-year-old cancer victim Colette Chuda)(Cover Story)
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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Four years after their daughter's death, James and Nancy Chuda are funding new research on the link between cancers and the environment
Though cancer is most often associated with older Americans, from infancy to young adulthood it kills more kids than any other disease. The rate of cancer in children increased 10.8 percent between 1973 and 1990. Each year, there are 6,500 new cases of cancer in children under 15; 2,200 die. And, estimates Dr. Phillip Landrigan in his book, Raising Children Toxic-Free, 80 to 90 percent of all human cancers are caused by exposure to environmental carcinogens.
These grim cancer statistics were probably not uppermost in the minds ...