Reading Toms River

The residents hadn’t a clue what was happening to their water. Fagin, an environmental journalist, wades through a half century of dumping, denial, Greenpeace efforts to expose the situation, local citizens’ mixed responses…

Posted in Books, cancer causes, Environmental Health, Oncology (cancer), Public Health, ReviewsTagged , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a Comment on Reading Toms River

What Causes Breast Cancer? Reviewing the IOM Report on BC and the Environment

Earlier this month the IOM issued a big report on breast cancer and the environment. The thick analysis, commissioned and sponsored by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, was authored by an expert panel. Their task – to assess all available information on what causes BC, and make recommendations accordingly – was essentially impossible. […]

Posted in Breast Cancer, cancer causes, Oncology (cancer), Public HealthTagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 3 Comments on What Causes Breast Cancer? Reviewing the IOM Report on BC and the Environment

Confusing Reports On Coffee and Cancer, and What To Do About Breakfast

When I was a medical resident in the late 1980s, we treated some patients with pancreatic cancer on a regimen nick-named the coffee protocol because it included infusions of intravenous caffeine. How absurd, we thought back then, because years earlier caffeine had been linked to pancreatic cancer as a possible cause. Now, two new studies […]

Posted in Environmental Health, Life, Life as a Patient, Oncology (cancer)Tagged , , , , , , , , , Leave a Comment on Confusing Reports On Coffee and Cancer, and What To Do About Breakfast
newsletter software