Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr. Library Reviews

Life's Delicate Balance
Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer
by Janette D. Sherman, M.D.

Appeared in the February 15, 2000 issue of LIBRARY JOURNAL

Sherman, Janett'6 D., M,D.  Life's Delicate Balance: A Guide to Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer,

Taylor & Francis: Routledge.  Mar. 2000.
56032-869-X. $49,95; pap.  ISBN I-56032-870-3. $25.95.                  MED

Writing for the general reader, Sherman, a practicing internist. and the author of Chemical Exposure and Disease, explores the numerous associations between environmental solution and breast cancer.  Her investigation specifically targets hormones (natural and synthetic), radiation (including mammography), and toxic chemicals as prime historical and current cancer causing agents.  Undoubtedly, Sherman's text will prove controversial as the scientific jury is still out on exactly how to prevent cancer and precisely how and when the genetic changes that result in malignancy occur.  Rachel Carson introduced the public to the links between pollution and breast cancer iii her groundbreaking Silent Spring (1 962).  Few readers today will be unaware of pollutions public health implications, so this book best serves as a continued clarion call to clean up the environment. Overall it is well written and provides a riveting account of corporate and institutions (mis)investments in the Cancer Wars.  Recommended for public libraries.

- Gail Hendler, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr. Lib., New

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