Secret history of the war on cancer
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Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
Biologist and bladder cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber was 20 years old when diagnosed with cancer. At the time, her urologist asked if she had been exposed to several known environmental toxins linked to bladder cancer. Then, when environmental risks went out of fashion, and lifestyle habits became the cause of cancers, Steingraber mused that she had been too young to develop many of the lifestyle habits that might have caused her cancer. She was a vegetarian who ran four miles a day. As time went on, risky lifestyle habits link to cancer were replaced with a new focus on genetic links to cancer. Steingraber gladly answered that she did indeed have quite the family history of cancer.
