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Author Armstrong, Liz, author.

Title Cancer : 101 solutions to a preventable epidemic / Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey and Anne Wordsworth
Published Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2007]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2011
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations, portraits, digital file
Series The Solutions Project
Solutions Project (Series)
Contents Part one : The Global epidemic -- Introduction -- The Global Cancer Crisis -- Our Body Burden -- The Cost of Cancer -- What Causes Cancer? -- What About Aging, Genetics and Lifestyle? -- The Environmental Links -- Cancer in Children -- Cancer in Animals and Fish -- Cancer: The Bigger Picture -- Risk Assessment and the Precautionary Principle -- Changing the Cancer Paradigm -- It's Not Just Cancer -- Prevention, Early Detection and Screening -- Our Weakened Immunity -- The Chemical Deluge -- Gender Benders -- Cancer Where You Work -- Cancer Where You Live -- Cancer from Cars, Trucks and Buses -- The Way We Farm -- The Food We Eat -- Awash in Pesticides -- For Everyone's Sake, Stop Smoking -- Electromagnetic Radiation: We're the Experiment -- Cancer Hazards of Ionizing Radiation -- Radiation and Nuclear Power -- The Cancerous Corporation -- The Limits- and Corruption- of Science -- Big Pharma and the War on Cancer -- Who Is Protecting Us? -- What Are Cancer Charities and Hospitals Doing to Prevent Cancer? -- Prevent Cancer Now
Part two : 101 Solutions -- Ten Solutions for Individuals -- Five Solutions for Parents -- Five Solutions for Youth -- Ten Solutions for Action Groups -- Five Solutions for Health Care -- Ten Solutions for Cities -- Five Solutions for Labor -- Fifteen Solutions for Business -- Twenty Solutions for Governments -- Five Solutions for Developing Nations -- Ten Global Solutions -- One Solution for All of Us
Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2
Summary How to prevent cancer before it starts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Cancer -- Prevention.
Cancer.
Carcinogens.
Chemical carcinogenesis.
Consumer education.
Environmentally induced diseases -- Prevention
Consumer protection.
Carcinogens
Neoplasms -- prevention & control
Carcinogens, Environmental
Consumer Advocacy
Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects
Environmental Illness -- prevention & control
Neoplasms
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
Consumer protection
Cancer
Cancer -- Prevention
Carcinogens
Chemical carcinogenesis
Consumer education
Environmentally induced diseases -- Prevention
Form Electronic book
Author Dauncey, Guy, author.
Wordsworth, Anne, 1948- author.
Solutions Project
LC no. 2007532181
ISBN 9781550924978
1550924974
1283150166
9781283150163
9786613150165
6613150169