There is No Cure for Cancer by Alle C. Hall Excerpted with permission from the original article written by Alle C. Hall, published by The Stranger in May 1996. It was perhaps this last sign which sparked the heated response from Race organizers. In the same 30 years, a growing body of evidence indicates a correlation between increased environmental chemicals found in some plastics, pesticides, and bleached paper and certain transformations in the endocrine system. This could well be the cause of increased rates of breast cancers, endometriosis, declining sperm counts, and immune dysfunction.
Individuals can survive cancer, but our environment furiously makes victims of countless others.
Since mid-century, we've pumped pollutants into the ocean, air, and land at an alarming rate, and our habitat is returning the favor. Virtually every nation in the world reports rising breast cancer rates, especially among older women. But this theory falls apart under the sheer weight of the victim list. It also fails to account for the rising mortality rate. In 1969, my mother was 30.