Can diet soda, cellphones and makeup give you cancer?
The author of “The Secret History of the War on Cancer” discusses the health risks of, well, living. By Katharine Mieszkowski Oct. 08, 2007 | Children shouldn’t use cellphones. No one should drink diet sodas sweetened with aspartame. And think twice before getting X-rayed with a CAT scan except in a bona fide life-threatening emergency. That’s just some of the precautionary advice that epidemiologist Devra Davis, who runs the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, delivers in her new book, “The Secret History of the War on Cancer.” Davis, who is a professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and formerly served in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, argues that the United States’ $40 billion “war on cancer” has focused far too much on treatment, and not nearly enough on prevention. There’s a lot of blame to go around here, and Davis serves it to up to the scientific community, the g
