OPINION: Escalating Incidence of Childhood Cancer Ignored

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Subject:  OPINION: Escalating Incidence of Childhood Cancer Ignored
 Date:     Fri, 10 May 2002 11:37:56 -0400
From:      Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

cc:    Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov

OPINION: Escalating Incidence of Childhood Cancer Ignored

 

By Samuel Epstein, M.D. and Quentin Young, M.D.

 

CHICAGO , Illinois , May 9, 2002 (ENS) - Since passage of the 1971 National Cancer Act, launching the "War Against Cancer," the incidence of childhood cancer has steadily escalated to alarming levels. Childhood cancers have increased by 26 percent overall, while the incidence of particular cancers has increased still more - acute lymphocytic leukemia, 62 percent; brain cancer, 50 percent; and bone cancer, 40 percent.

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           Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2002 All Rights Reserved.

Well Mr. Helliker,  How long will you continue to ignore these innocent children? 

Respectfully,  Stephen L. Tvedten

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