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Message: [QUOTE="Oakland, post: 1022217, member: 590"] Well the ability to cure cancer would be great and that is currently the case with a handful of cancers. But curing cancer is the hard and expensive road for most cancers. For many cancers, there is no reasonable chance that they will be curable in the foreseeable future. Preventing cancer is the easier road - better to not get cancer in the first place. How can we prevent cancer? We can't prevent all cancers, but limiting the exposure to harmful man made chemicals would be a big step forward. Did did you know that most chemicals, including most of the ones that you touch and come in contact with your food and beverages, are exempt by congress from safety studies? Anyone who wants to reduce cancer rates should be a big supporter of the clean air act, the clean water act, and the EPA. Hooker Chemical/Love Canal, Allied Chemical/Lake Ononadoga, and GE/Hudson River won't happen with adequate oversight. Unfortunately, the reality is that the govenment has and will put the profits of the chemical industry ahead of the well being of the citizenry. The latest example is the energy fracturing industry, which congress has exempt from many environmental laws, that is pumping unknown and untested chemical mixtures into large areas of of the country, which directly contaminates aquafers. People are already ingesting those chemicals and many more will in the coming years. The equation for the politicians is that profits and jobs show up today, but your cancer shows up in 20 years. Well your cancer from Hooker/Allied/GE is showing up now. So I advise you to lobby your politicians to require all man made chemicals that come in contact with humans to be adequately tested for safety - and if they aren't safe control them. In short, if you don't support the safety study and control of chemicals - don't complain about cancer. [/QUOTE]

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