Since World War II childhood cancer has doubled and testicular cancer in men 19-35 has tripled. Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma has grown by 80 per cent. Brain cancer is up more than 50 per cent in the elderly. Breast cancer has reached epidemic proportions around the world. Since Rachel Carson s Silent Spring was published in 1962, environmentalists have been convinced that certain pollutants, like pesticides and DDT, are making us sick.
Cancer is big business.
There are mega bucks in treatment and in detection. There is, however, not much profit in prevention. Judy Brady, a San Francisco activist, was diagnosed with breast cancer 18 years ago. All we have for treatment is slash, burn and poison. I can t see significant progress at all.