Introduction:  Twenty years ago, while serving on the advisory committee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the Toxic Substances Control Act, I was asked to write a short article on the issue of risks and benefits from exposure to chemicals. I called the paper Cancer: Our Social Disease. It seemed then, and it is clear now, that winning the so-called war on cancer will not be accomplished by physicians, scientists, pharmaceutical corporations, epidemiologists, geneticists, nor by the thousands employed in various governmental agencies and universities at home and abroad. It will be won people who understand the connection between the loss of personal health and worldwide pollution from toxic chemcials, ionizing radiation, and endocrine-altering chemicals.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: All Life Is Connected

Chapter 2: The Delicate Balance of Life

Chapter 3: Risks for Breast Cancer

Chapter 4: Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Chapter 5: Radiation - From Bikini Island to Long Island

Chapter 6: Radiation - Nuclear and X-ray

Chapter 7: Hormones One

Chapter 8: Hormones Too

Chapter 9: Tamoxifen

Chapter 10: Post Menonpausal Hormone Replacement

Chapter 11: The Genetic Connection

Chapter 12: The Breast Cancer Epidemic on Long Island

Chapter 13: Diseases In Men

Chapter 14: Questions, History, Ethics and Morality

Chapter 15: The Cancer Movement

Chapter 16: What The Citizen Can Do

Chapter 17: Sources of Information and Action

Index

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