© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors ward trend in cancer mortality is
welcome, the recent decline is really quite modest. Considering the decrease in mortality …

The last 30 years has seen an explosion of evidence that lifestyle drives cancer risk and has
documented through rigorous studies an increasing number of effective prevention …

Though overall cancer incidence and mortality have continued to decline in recent years,
cancer continues to devastate the lives of far too many Americans. In 2009 alone, 1.5 million …

In its broadest sense, the environment can be defined as external conditions influencing the
development of people, animals or plants. For the purpose of studying the effects of the …

The Causation Debate Researchers have put forth a variety of theories for the increased
incidence of some cancers, including a population that is growing and aging, better …

The industrialised Western countries do not have a monopoly of cancer. Recently the
International Agency for Research on Cancer and the cancer unit at the World Health …

Perhaps 90% of all human cancer is caused by factors in the environment. The basis for this
estimate is the differences in cancer incidence rates throughout the world and the changes …

A brief review is given of the causes of the main human cancers. We distinguish
occupationally-incurred cancer, which arises in individuals exposed at work to varied …

T HROUGH a brief overview of cancer mortality and incidence, patterns of survival, trends,
and geographic differences both in the United States and abroad, I shall attempt to illustrate …

The incidence and mortality due to the major cancers such as lung, breast, colon-rectum,
prostate, and ovary have changed very little over the past 20–30 years, in spite of the …