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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . We do not have an answer to this question. However, we wonder why cancers seem to cluster in heavily industrialized regions. Ames says the vast majority of cancers are caused by foods like mushrooms, charred meat, burnt toast and peanut butter. No, the Bruce Ames thesis doesn't seem very useful in explaining why cancers cluster near industry, and particularly near petrochemical processing industries.