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Article: Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.
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- HealthFacts
- Article date:
- August 1, 1997
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Center for Medical Consumers, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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While in her twenties, the author was diagnosed with bladder cancer, an uncommon cancer that caused the death of her aunt. Most people would say these women probably come from a cancer family, one with a genetic propensity toward the development of this disease. But Dr. Steingraber is adopted. Her own story is told as a sidelight to the extensive research she has collected to indict the massive array of suspected carcinogens introduced into our environment since World War II. In the ensuing decades, toxins have become ubiquitous in the air, water, soil, and food supply. To the question of why certain cancers have been rising steadily since the 1940s, the author joins a ...