Dear Editor, has just ended a week for Research on Cancer has found that, like every year, large space in radio, television and newspapers, a case certainly fortuitous, however, its Sunday evening broadcast on RAI 1, to 23.30, an investigation of over 50 sites polluted especially in our country and it became clear to all that live in contact with large plants that emit dioxins, heavy metals, asbestos, cancer of all types, is an undeniable risk to the health of the environment, Animal rights: in these places because the incidence of birth defects, miscarriages, cancer and other diseases is at stratospheric levels.
The two news items made me think: on the one hand continue to make efforts to "cancer research" suggesting that sooner or later you will arrive at the solution of the problem, maybe with some miracle drug, on the other side not you make the necessary remediation and at most it involved the slaughtering of infected herds, it allows people living in areas soaked carcinogens, waiting perhaps they do their effect, since - at least for now - not break down the people "Polluted"!
For decades they collect money, lots of money for cancer research: in the U.S. until 2005 were invested over 50 billion dollars, but, while it decreases the incidence of certain cancers (especially those related to smoking habit thankfully declining especially in males), on the other we get sick more and more tumors in the prostate, testis, breast, thyroid, lymphoma, melanoma, pancreas, liver and so on ....
course, for some types of cancer, even in advanced stages, some improvement in survival has been achieved, but at what price, both in terms of side effects that cheap? A
recent article estimated that in New York in the '90s could be extended to 11.5 months the life of a cancer patient at a cost of $ 500 in 2004 for the same type of cancer and at the same stage, were available treatments to extend life of 22.5 months at a cost of $ 250,000.
really honestly think we can afford them and especially that this will open a real window of opportunity in the war against cancer?
We are many among "insiders" and "outsiders" to work to believe that this approach is a loser and we would like to inverted as soon as the route, or, at least, the search for effective therapies were accompanied by equal investment for the removal of the causes of cancer in the U.S. National Cancer Institute spends less than 3% for the real America Cancer Society prevention of the disease even less than 0.1% ...
I dare not imagine what the sums involved in our country.
also not overlook the fact that another, crucial action is to provide citizens with information scientifically accurate, clear, complete and detailed information on the many carcinogens in our habitat and therefore push more and more politicians adoption concrete measures to protect public health.
According to a recent WHO report in 2030 cancer will be the leading cause of death in the world today and in Italy the probability of receiving a diagnosis of cancer over a lifetime (0 to 84 years) now covers 50% of us, then 1 to 2 and between males among females, is ill with this disease and will be increasingly affected youth, women, children ...
The information that goes for more about the causes of cancer is that you get sick of cancer due to improper lifestyles, hereditary factors, not least because of aging: the result of these messages is that not only does it feel too sick and blamed it reinforces the idea that contracting cancer is something almost inevitable, as if morire di vecchiaia fosse ormai diventata un’ utopia!
In realtà un’ampia ricerca condotta in 7 aree del mondo ha dimostrato che i fattori di rischio comunemente invocati danno ragione di non più del 40% dei casi di cancro: a cosa dobbiamo quindi imputare il restante 60%?
Non sarà il caso di cominciare a guardarci intorno e chiederci che ruolo hanno pesticidi, diossine, nichel, cadmio, cromo, benzene, PCB…e gli altri numerosissimi veleni presenti ormai stabilmente nell’ambiente di vita e soprattutto in aria, acqua, cibo, sostanze che stanno minando sempre più drammaticamente la salute nostra e soprattutto dei nostri bambini?
Sono un medico all’antica e are increasingly convinced that the type of cancer from which of course - in 100% of cases - is to heal you never get sick and make a proposal: to establish the week of the CIC "/ Correct Information Cancer /" making room for many doctors, researchers and scholars in our country are carrying out these concepts and that you are given the priority to safeguard the health and staying healthy, not to "chase" the disease without ever act on their causes.
information A rigorous, independent, scientifically correct is the first tool you must put in place if you really want to get out of the quagmire in which even the struggles Oncology.
Why then do not use the money collected in the past week for the remediation of polluted sites in our country?
Patrizia Gentilini
Medical Oncology and Hematology.
Association of Doctors for the Environment ISDE Italy
/ Danei G.: Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioral and Environmental Risk Factors Lancet 366: 1784-1793, 2003 Clapp RW et al: Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, 2007 Devra Davis: The Secret History of the War on Cancer Samuel S. Epstein: How to Win the War Against Cancer, 2005 http://www.preventcancer.com/ /
0 comments:
Post a Comment