[Fwd: The Politics of Cancer]

[James McCarthy]

The figures refer to the percentages who will be diagnosed with cancer at
some point in their lives, not necessarily in the calendar year 1999. And
the figures are correct, and will almost certainly continue to rise in the
foreseeable future -- they have been rising steadily in the postwar period.


>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.

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James McCarthy
Dept. of Geography
U.C. Berkeley
jpmgeog at socrates.berkeley.edu
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