Cancer as an Environmental Disease (Environmental Science and Technology Library, 20)

Brand: Springer

Author: Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Polyxeni

Edition: 2004

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 234

EAN: 9781402020193

Release Date: 31-03-2004

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches

Details: These pages contain a number of chapters from specialists in the field who consider, from a number of different perspectives, the currently available evidence that supports the environmental cancer aetiology hypothesis. This constitutes the first part of the book. In the second part of the book, an examination of the policy implications of accepting that the cancer epidemic may essentially be preventable is presented. This will pose some difficult problems for politicians and decision-makers, who will have to consider adopting policies that may damage the economy in the short term in order to reap health benefits which will only become apparent several decades in the future.