[Fwd: The Politics of Cancer]

[Carrol Cox]

I find the figures given in the post partly copied below hard to believe. Does
anyone have any comment?

Carrol


>
> Subject: The Politics of Cancer
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:24:35 -0500
> From: Robert Weissman <rob at essential.org>
> To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <corp-focus at essential.org>
>
> In 1999, one in two American men and one in three American women will get
> cancer. In the 1950s, one in four Americans were afflicted with this
> deadly disease.