This includes the medical profession, the cancer establishment, and the industrial, nuclear and agricultural polluters who hold our health in their hands. Her occupation is mentioned somewhere in the middle of the story, but the story is about how this woman was pregnant and refused treatment for the sake of the baby. Soon after the baby was born, she died. What a wonderful woman, her surviving husband said, along with everyone else. I am left to believe that she sacrificed herself for her child, not for the nuclear power plant.
Cancer is epidemic in the United States.
In 1900, cancer accounted for only 4 percent of deaths in the United States. It now is the second leading cause of death. The World Health Organization estimates that 90 percent of cancers are caused by environmental toxins. Many, if not most, cancers are preventable. The doctor will ask about diet, smoking and heredity.