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• Title:Cancer-gate : how to win the losing cancer war / Samuel S. Epstein.
  
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• Author/Creator:Epstein, Samuel S.
  
• Published/Created:Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., ©2005.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QZ200 .E67 2005
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:c.1 Lost - 07-13-2006
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
  American Cancer Society.
  Cancer--Government policy--United States.
  Cancer--Prevention.
  
• Description:xxi, 377 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Series:Policy, politics, health, and medicine series.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-350) and index.
  
• ISBN:0895033100 (cloth)
  0895033542 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Foreword / David Obey
  Introduction / John Conyers, Jr.
  1. Losing the war against cancer : who's to blame and what to do about it
  2. Debate on policies of the national cancer institute, American cancer society, and American college of radiology
  A. Losing the "war against cancer" : a need for public policy reforms
  B. Mammography radiates doubts
  C. National cancer institute reaffirms commitment to prevention / National Cancer Institute
  D. American college of radiology refutes Epstein's comments on mammography / American College of Radiology
  E. Cancer establishment continues to mislead public : Epstein rebuts national cancer institute and American college of radiology reponses
  F. cancer war and its critics / Washington Post
  G. Epstein rebuts the Washington post editorial
  3. Dangers and unreliability of mammography : breast examination is a safe, effective, and practical alternative / Rosalie Bertell, Barbara Seaman and Samuel S. Epstein
  4. Evaluation of the national cancer program and proposed reforms
  5. American cancer society : the world's wealthiest "nonprofit" institution
  6. Legislative proposals for reversing the cancer epidemic and controlling run-away industrial technologies
  7. crisis in U.S. and international cancer policy
  8. Strategies for the stop cancer campaign
  9. REACH : an unprecedented science-based European initiative for regulating industrial chemicals
  10. Debate on safety of recombinant bovine growth hormone
  A. Potential public health hazards of recombinant bovine growth hormone
  B. FDA publishes bovine growth hormone data / Ann Gibbons
  C. Rebuttal of Gibbons's article discrediting the Epstein publication / Vicente Navarro
  11. Questions and answers on synthetic bovine growth hormones
  12. Unlabeled milk from cows treated with biosynthetic growth hormones : a case of regulatory abdication
  13. chemical jungle : today's beef industry
  14. Preventing pathogenic food poisoning : sanitation, not irradiation / Wenonah Hauter and Samuel S. Epstein
  15. Pro-industry bias in science
  16. Corporate crime : why we cannot trust industry-derived safety studies
  17. Industrial risks of colorectal cancer / Bret A. Lashner and Samuel S. Epstein
  18. Industrial risks of breast cancer
  Why we are still losing the winnable cancer war
  App. Endorsers of proposals for cancer policy reform
  Praise for recent books by Samuel S. Epstein
  Praise for cancer-gate.