European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page in the stars and stripes january 1978 cancer due to environment modern Medicine St highly exaggerated by Michael once again the catch phrase that 90 per cent of cancers arc caused by the Environ ment has been repeated in the newspapers and on this is fast becoming the equivalent of a Given something Tike newtons third Law of the statement much More closely resembles one of those mythic estimates such As the govern ment required words to write a Regula Tion about because the topic is such an important 1 want to discuss it although a previous column rented the sub the respected British medical journal lancet recently discussed what it called the Rumor going around Liat some 90 percent of cancers Are due to environmental gathering All the available lancets Board of editors round that the estimate was both exaggerated and the is misused because the Origi Nal developers of the theory spoke of Environ mental causes in very Broad including what the individual docs la Mast think of Environ mental causes As those related o what older telescopic glosses Vera a news correspondent Iron serves As an interpreter a new York for yugoslav patient Ivou my Nusinov in As he eyeglasses developed with a system of telescopic fees Devil coed for people with practically m people put into the air we the water we and the food we most Ameri cans do not think of  lung As an environmental but that is exactly what the research in who originally the 90 percent figure had in when this is taken into account most scientists feel that Only so percent or go percent of cancers have definite environmental cause even if one includes individual smoking in that it is important to get this concept straight and to be sceptical about i he 90 percent figure because Many americans Are beginning to be Lieve they Are being poisoned by the Atmo sphere around poisoning of the atmosphere May exit to some but it is nothing compared to what individuals do to the High incidence of lung cancer in certain Industrial areas in the East is related to the fact not Only that there were pollutants in the but also that cigarette smoking was particularly heavy among factory and mine our awareness of Pollut ants in inc air and chemicals in our food is exaggerated by modern chemistry ability to detect some substances in As of a concentration one part per it is also important to recognize thai cancer is not simply a disease of technological Civili it May Well be that cancer was not so frequent a a Nus of death and disability in the past simply because people did not live Long enough to develop there Are some cancers that Are associated with everyday human cancer of the cervix in for is now a disappearing partly because of better sexual Hygiene and partly because of us use of the Pap smear lest to detect the disease in Early when the disease was frequent it was found to be directly associated with 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