Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This past year my dearest friend has been undergoing treatment for cancer. First they mutilated her with a knife; next they burned her with radiation; at present she is being poisoned with chemotherapy. It's the best 20th century medicine...
...very familiar with the overwhelming paucity of scientific data on the effectiveness of Laetrile, I was glad to see that you reported on some of the real fears that the FDA and the American Cancer Society have in this area. Cancer patients, especially those who are terminal, are easy prey for the quick-cure artist...
...have hit at the heart of the controversy: if Laetrile is legalized as a cancer cure without any evidence of its effectiveness, where will the line on such "cures" ever be drawn? Only the helpless and desperate will suffer, while the promoters of these unproven remedies will money. continue to count their...
...large-scale nuclear war, which would blast enough nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere to reduce the ozone layer by as much as 70% for a period of from five to ten years. Even a slight increase in ultraviolet rays seems to cause a higher incidence of skin cancer, and a significant depletion of the ozone layer could cause far-reaching damage to plant and animal life and trigger drastic climatic changes...
...CANCER. Some forms of cancer are caused by such natural factors as heredity and viruses. But many cancers are brought on-especially in the industrialized parts of the world-by environmental factors. As the U.N. report explains, the cancers "relate to the air people breathe or the water they drink, to the environment in which they work or live, to their personal diet or way of life." In industrialized societies, environmental factors have already been proved to be responsible for up to 40% of all human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form...