![]() Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board in 1994 and also served as Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Science. She was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.ĭevra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Professor of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health. ![]() A portion of the profits from this book will go to support research on cancer prevention. This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain. Filled with compelling personalities and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies-a legacy that persists to this day. ![]() ![]() The War on Cancer was run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease. Proof of how the world in which we live and work affects whether we get cancer was either overlooked or suppressed. Left untouched were many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, or the global environment. The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. ![]()
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