Environmental
and
Other Causes of Cancer

These are links to web sites that provide information about the possible environmental causes of cancer. Does Pollution = Cancer?

 Activism Links

• VA withholds data for up to 70,000 veteran cancers a year - Reported on September 1, 2007 by Bryant Furlow of the EPI NEWS
  Veterans hospitals in 13 states are not reporting cases to state registries and have prevented health officials from conducting case-finding audits, threatening the validity of epidemiological research.

• Worst Places In The World Sprol - Sprol shows the visual macroscopic effects of the decisions and behavior of our society. Since previous generations have not had the advantage of this perspective it is our obligation to use it wisely. 

• The Cancer War Needs an Informed Public - 
  Known Carcinogens To Be Avoided,  Richard Alexander, Esq.

• State of the Evidence - What Is the Connection Between the Environment and Breast Cancer? 
  Edited by Nancy Evans, Health Science Consultant, Breast Cancer Fund.

• Worked to Death - Brain Cancer in the work place (Pratt & Whitney)

• Toxic Kitsap and Polluted Puget - dedicated to cancer and environmental activism in my community.
• 106th CONGRESS SENATE BILL 2519 FINDINGS - The Department of Energy policy to litigate occupational illness claims regardless of merit.
• It's All In Your Head. Read the part about Robert Strom, a Boeing worker who won a lawsuit that claimed his leukemia was caused by exposures to EMF/EMP (electromagnetic force/electromagnetic pulse) in the workplace. For years, Boeing fought Strom's claims through state and federal courts, finally settling with him and other employees. Boeing gave Strom a $500,000 out-of-court settlement and agreed to pay 10 years' worth of medical monitoring for 300 workers, said his attorney Michael Withey of Seattle. Robert Strom's work involved testing and simulating the effects of the EMP from nuclear explosions on Minuteman missile ground support systems. Five of his co-workers also caught leukemia. I recently received many of the papers from his lawsuit. This is the most significant so far. Lecture by Dr. Czerski on "Bioeffects, Health Implication and Safety Standards of Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation", February 25, 1974

Note: Robert Strom's story was covered by CBS News' 'Sixty Minutes', 'Strom vs Boeing', reported by Mike Wallace March 5, 1989. Click here to download the audio of this show. Robert Strom, is also a survivor of a bone marrow transplant at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.  I met him at several ceremonies including the 2005 patient reunion where he gave a copy of the 60 minutes show. We have the same leukemia and similar work histories and exposures to EMP. I left my employment at Boeing in 1964 for work in  Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.  It is a major home port and repair shipyard.  These ships have many RADAR and electronic counter measure systems.

• TRADE SECRETS -  a very powerful PBS report by Bill Moyers about the chemical industry  withholding vital information about the risks from workers related to cancer and other diseases
  • Report 
  • Transcripts 
    
• In Strictest Confidence - a report by the Houston Chronicle about vinyl chloride
  • TOXIC SECRECY
    For years, makers and users of vinyl chloride concealed the terrible truth: The chemical can cause cancer
  • SECOND OPINION
    In an 'extremely unusual' event, a doctor under industry contract reversed his damaging conclusions in a study of worker deaths involving vinyl chloride
  • HIGH-LEVEL CRIME
    Italy develops a case for manslaughter because workers breathed vinyl chloride
  • GRIM NUMBERS
    The astonishing amount of vinyl chloride present at a plant in England was equaled only by the toll of dead or dying workers
    
• Cancer Clusters Activism
  • National Disease Cluster Alliance - There mission is to promote vibrant healthy communities through empowerment and supportive partnerships.
  • Childhood Cancer Causation  - A Yahoo group about childhood cancers.
  • FAMILIES AGAINST CANCER & TOXICS - Dedicated to finding causes of childhood cancers, with the goal of preventing future cases
  • THE STAND - about toxic chemical poisoning at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
  • Trust for America's Health - Dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority. 
  • The National Institutes of Health (NIH) "Tox Town" - An introduction to toxic chemicals and environmental health risks you might encounter in everyday life, in everyday places.
  • Fallon, NV Deadly Oasis - Residents of Fallon, Nev. demand answers as a "cancer cluster" kills their kids.
  • Toxic Links Coalition - The Toxic Links Coalition (TLC) is an alliance of community groups, of cancer survivors, health care and environmental justice organizations etc.
  • Maryvale, AZ Cancer cluster story: "The Pain of Maryvale"
    
• Environmental Research Foundation - News and resources for environmental justice

• Norm Buske - research scientist, investigator, citizen-activist, and hellraiser. 
      Links about his activism at Hanford and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
  • Interview of Norm Buske by Eric Nelson of the Free Press.
  • Scientist swims into hot water - Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA
  • Hanford Interview - by the The Hanford Health Information Network

• Toxic Links Coalition - The Toxic Links Coalition (TLC) is an alliance of community groups, of cancer survivors, health care and environmental justice organizations etc.
• What's New in GIS in Public Health - January 2000 
  Dedicated to CDC/ATSDR scientific excellence and advancement in disease control and prevention using GIS

Educational institutions

• Duke Occupational & Environmental Medicine
• New York State Department of Health; Environmental and Occupational Health

Government organizations and programs

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  
  • EPA Environmental Emergencies reporting for concerned citizens. 1-800-424-8802

• Defense Environmental Restoration Program.
• HANFORD HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK HOME PAGE
• Query results of Occupational and Heath documents for LEUKEMIA - OHS # to Substances.  Data provide by a Federal fireman from his workers compensation claim files.
• ATSDR - Public Health Assessments - Retrieve public health assessment by  region  in alphabetical order by state.

Farming and agriculture

• Chemicals & Pesticide Health Effects Research
• A Review of Farm Accident Data Sources
• Use of Health Insurance Data For Surveilance of Farm Related Illnesses and Injuries
• Mortality Among White and Nonwhite Farmers in North Carolina, 1976-1978

Facts and errata

• Benzene - the bad guy for leukemia
  • Benzene - as described in the the 11th  Report on Carcinogens.
  • Chinese Study - This is a report I made with Microsoft Excel from a Chinese study of 74,828 workers exposed to benzene verses 35,850 workers not exposed to benzene. It shows the causal relationship of benzene to leukemia and other blood diseases.
  • BENZENE A HUMAN CARCINOGEN - by Raphael Metzger, Esq

  • Scientific Ignorance and Reliable Patterns of Evidence in Toxic Tort Causation -  Is There a Need for Liability Reform?  About benzene.

  • Benzene - as listed in DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 79-116, 
    THE GUIDE TO THE WORK-RELATEDNESS OF DISEASE

• Trichloroethylene (TCE) - Drinking Water Contamination and the Incidence of Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Tars and mineral oils - this is the carcinogencity report on roofing tar and other tar and mineral products from the 10th Report on Carcinogens- Revised January 2001. 
• EMF/EMP (electromagnetic force/electromagnetic pulse)
  • Electromagnetic Fields (EHC 137, 1992) - Published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Radiation Protection Association, and the World Health Organization World Health Organization, Geneva, 1993.
  • Microwaves and Mind Control in Low Income Communities - about report by Professor Przemyslaw Czerski and Dr. William M. Leach, that it was "easily demonstrable and easily quantified microwave effects on the lymphocytes and lymphocytic systems of mice, rabbits, and guinea pigs which had been exposed to low doses of radiation."
  •  Study of EMF and Childhood Leukemia - GIS Model of Power Lines Used to Study EMF and Childhood Leukemia
  • It's All In Your Head. Read the part about a Boeing worker who won a lawsuit that claimed his leukemia was caused by exposures to EMF/EMP (electromagnetic force/electromagnetic pulse) in the workplace.  
  • EMFs In The Workplace
  • EMFRAPID Home - Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination program home page. Lots of government and industry bull on EMF.
    • EMF-Q&A - Link from the EMFRAPID Home page
  • DO HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER LINES CAUSE CANCER - Studies link Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) To Illness
  • Do They Really Believe There Are No Dangerous EMF - Does the Federal Government Really Believe There Are No Dangerous Bioeffects From EMF Exposure?
  • Magnetic Fields And Leukemia - People who have a high level of exposure to magnetic fields at work and at home have more than three times the risk of leukemia as those with lower exposures.
• DIOXIN IN PENTACHLOROPHENOL: A CASE STUDY OF CANCER DEATHS IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY 
• The Consumer Law Page - Introduction
• Why I Am Proud To Be A Lawyer. By Richard Alexander, Esq.

Please send me more good links.

I welcome your comments and suggestions.
Bob Farmer - robert.farmer@comcast.net
Home Page:  http://oc.itgo.com 

Last Updated on 09/04/07