Cancer

One Community’s Fight For Clean Air In Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

April 22, 2017 Julie Dermansky, www.nationofchange.org Resist! Air, Cancer, Louisiana

By Julie Dermansky for Nation of Change - It doesn’t take carefully calibrated measurements to realize there is something wrong with the air around the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. From a small plane, I photographed the petrochemical manufacturing facility, until recently owned by DuPont, noting its proximity to the community around its fence line. The emissions were horrible. Breathing them while circling the plant twice left me with a headache that lingered for hours. The surrounding communities and I were inhaling emissions of chloroprene and 28 other chemicals, which the plant uses to make the synthetic rubber commonly known as Neoprene. Chloroprene is nasty stuff. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2010 toxicological review of the chemical resulted in the agency reclassifying chloroprene as a likely human carcinogen. Also according to the EPA, short term exposure to high concentrations of chloroprene can affect the nervous system, weaken immune systems, and cause rapid heartbeat, stomach problems, impaired kidney function, and rashes, among other health issues.

EPA Official Bragged About Hiding Monsanto’s Cancerous Truth

March 22, 2017 Ronnie Cummins, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Cancer, EPA, Monsanto

By Ronnie Cummins for Organic Consumers Organization - We're calling on Congress to launch an official investigation into how EPA officials colluded with Monsanto. Can you help us raise $200,000 by midnight, March 31 to meet our quarterly online fundraising goal. You can donate online, by mail or by phone, details here. According to the New York Times, newly unsealed court documents reveal that former EPA official Jess Rowland let Monsanto ghostwriters write the toxicology reports that would form the basis for a government investigation into whether or not Roundup causes cancer. “If I can kill this I should get a medal,” Rowland reportedly told a Monsanto executive, who shared the comment in an email.

Emails Show Monsanto Helped Write Cancer Studies On Roundup

March 17, 2017 Allen Cone, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Cancer, EPA, Monsanto

By Allen Cone for United Press International - Monsanto ghostwrote studies on the herbicide Roundup for the Environmental Protection Agency, documents unsealed in a federal court case seem to show. Farmers and others are suing chemical company Monsanto, alleging that the company failed to warn them that its glyphosate-based week killer can cause non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In company emails made public Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco, Monsanto executives discuss ghostwriting research papers on Roundup, the company's best-selling product, that would be signed by scientists. Two papers on Roundup were eventually published, one in 2000 and one in 2013.

California Judge Enables Cancer Warning On Monsanto’s Roundup

March 13, 2017 Staff, www.sustainablepulse.com Resist! California, Cancer, Monsanto

By Staff of Sustainable Pulse - Fresno County Superior Court Judge Kristi Kapetan previously issued a tentative ruling on January 27 in Monsanto Company v. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, et al. Judge Kapetan formalized her ruling against Monsanto on Friday, which will allow California to proceed with the process of listing glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as a chemical “known to the state to cause cancer” in accordance with the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, better known as Proposition 65. Note: California has still not finalized the labeling of Roundup under Proposition 65 or set the safe harbor levels.

Monsanto Cancer Lawsuits Shift Over EPA Official’s ‘Highly Suspicious’ Role

March 3, 2017 Lorraine Chow, www.nationofchange.org Resist! Cancer, EPA, Lawsuit, Monsanto

By Lorraine Chow for Nation of Change - An EPA scientist says that Rowland and another official “intimidated staff” into changing reports related to the glyphosate findings. Former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Jess Rowland may have to testify over claims that he covered up evidence that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto‘s top-selling herbicide Roundup, could cause cancer. A federal judge said at a hearing in San Francisco on Monday that he is likely to grant the deposition of Rowland, a key figure named in multi-district cancer lawsuits alleging that Monsanto failed to warn about the cancer risks associated with exposure to glyphosate.

Thousands Of Schools Contaminated With Cancer & Birth Defect Causing PCBs

June 22, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Cancer, Contamination, PCB's, Schools

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - AUSTIN, Texas — A toxic chemical that used to be prevalent in construction materials may still be hiding in the walls of thousands of American schools, and experts believe the EPA is doing too little to prevent it from poisoning a new generation of children. Polychlorinated biphenyls, a family of chemicals better known as PCBs, were commonly used in building materials until 1979, when they were finally banned due to the threat they pose to human health.

Hundreds Of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Pollute Americans’ Bodies

June 15, 2016 Alex Formuzis, www.ewg.org Educate! Cancer, Chemicals, pollution

By Alex Formuzis for EWG - WASHINGTON- Hundreds of cancer-causing chemicals are building up in the bodies of Americans, according to the first comprehensive inventory of the carcinogens that have been measured in people. EWG released the inventory today. EWG spent almost a year reviewing more than 1,000 biomonitoring studies and other research by leading government agencies and independent scientists in the U.S. and around the world. The nonprofit research group found that up to 420 chemicals known or likely to cause cancer have been detected in blood, urine, hair and other human samples.

Widow Sues Monsanto Over Husband’s Cancer

March 13, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Cancer, glyphosate, health, Monsanto

By Lorraine Chow for EcoWatch. Cambria, CA - A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Monsanto Co. by the widow of a prominent Cambria, California farmer alleging that Monsanto had known for years that exposure to glyphosate—the main ingredient in the agribusiness giant’s flagship weedkiller Roundup—could cause cancer and other serious illnesses or injuries. The lawsuit, which seeks wrongful death and punitive damages, was filed today in Los Angeles federal court by attorneys Michael Baum, Cynthia Garber and Brent Wisner of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of Kennedy & Madonna on behalf of Teri McCall. Teri McCall claims Roundup caused her husband of 40-years, Anthony Jackson “Jack” McCall, to develop terminal cancer after he used the herbicide on his 20-acre fruit and vegetable farm for nearly 30 years.

Scientist Wins Libel Suit Against Monsanto Over GMO’s Causing Tumors

March 1, 2016 Staff, www.jbanews.com Resist! Cancer, GMOs, health

By Staff of JBA Healthy News - On November 25, the High Court in Paris indicted Marc Fallous, the former chairman of France’s Biomolecular Engineering Commission, for “forgery” and the “use of forgery.” The details of the case have not been officially released. But according to this article from the Séralini website, Fallous used or copied the signature of a scientist whose name was used, without his agreement, to argue that Séralini and his co-workers were wrong in their studies on Monsanto products, including GM corn.A sentencing for Fallous is expected in June 2016.

Act Out! Think Before You Pink, Lee Camp & California Battles The Bottle

October 25, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resistance Report Act Out!, Cancer, Lee Camp, Nestle, Pink washing, Water

By Eleanor Goldfield for Act Out! - Think before you pink – it's October and pink-washing is in full swing for Breast Cancer Awareness Month but here are several reasons why you should abstain from the cancer fan-fare, and how you can really battle the big C's – corporations and cancer. The corruption of the Susan G. Koman Foundation which spends its money on high salaries, lawsuits against other cancer groups, partnering with big oil with pink drill bits at fracking sites spreading toxins that cause cancer. It is a superficial month of marketing without any discussion of how we inadequately fund research and make access to healthcare inadequate. Next up, Lee Camp turns tragedy into comedy to get out serious messages about corporatocracy, war and empire. Lee talks about activism in the entertainment industry. Comedy led him to politics, lots of steps along the way, but the one moment -- stopping an execution in Texas with other death penalty activists -- where he learned a very small number of people can make a significant difference. and finally - California's bitter fight against Nestle over bottled water and undermining the California water supply. Activists file suit to stop Nestle from pumping water out of California forests.

100+ Doctors Tell Big Pharma To Not Make Cancer Drugs So Expensive

July 28, 2015 Tara Culp-Ressler, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Cancer, Inequality, Medicine, Public Health

By Tara Culp-Ressler in Think Progress - The pressure is mounting on pharmaceutical companies to lower their prices for lifesaving drugs, as a group of more than 100 prominent oncologists is calling for grassroots solutions to the skyrocketing cost of cancer treatment. In an editorial published on Thursday in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 118 doctors from top hospitals around the country argue that up to 20 percent of cancer patients don’t follow their recommended treatment regimen because they’re being priced out of the drugs they need. The oncologists say this financial burden puts sick Americans in an untenable situation as they’re fighting for their lives. “It’s time for patients and their physicians to call for change,” Dr. Ayalew Tefferi, a doctor at the Mayo Clinic and the lead author of the paper, concluded.

High Cancer Rates And Oil Sands Connection Found

January 18, 2014 Scott Haggett, ca.reuters.com Educate! Cancer, Oil and Gas, TransCanada

Health officials in Alberta confirmed on Friday that there are more cases of cancer than expected in a small aboriginal village downstream from the Canadian province's massive oil sands plants, but they said there was no cause for residents to be alarmed. Residents of the village of Fort Chipewyan, a one-time trading post on the northeast shore of Lake Athabasca, say oil sands developments may be responsible for rare bile-duct cancers first spotted by a doctor in the community in 2006. Those complaints sparked a study by Alberta health authorities, which released the results on Friday. "We haven't seen it," said Steve Courtoreille, a councilor with the Mikisew Cree First Nation and chairman of the Nunee Health Board Society. "We've asked for it so our doctors can critique but they caught us off guard. It's not going to show the real picture ...There is a problem here."

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