This book covers the wide range of malignant illness and where they intersect with environmental factors. Chapters explore the importance of acknowledging and dealing with the societal implications of anthropogenic climate change, a wider appreciation of the many ways that human industry and activity is changing the environment and contributing to human disease is imperative.
In addition to how particular exposures relate to certain malignancies, the book explores historical events that led to the development of cancers in order to help policy makers and patient advocates understand where we have been when considering future initiatives. It also discusses the disparities involved in environmental toxin exposure and look at these cancers in light of the need to reduce cancer disparities.
Given the ongoing ecological crisis from climate change and expanding human population and industrialization, this book examines pollution and ecological change to impacts and where human disease can be prevented.
Table of Content
Section 1: Biology
Exposures and cancer: historical concerns
Molecular mechanisms of environmental oncogenesis
Air pollution and lung cancer
Radiation exposure and cancer ( Chernobyl)
Lost opportunities: deforestation , sick oceans and fewer drugs from nature
Section 2 :Food , Lifestyle and Cancer
Meat consumption. dietary choice and cancer
Alcohol and cancer
Tobacco, second-hand smoke and cancer
The environmental cost of factory farming and cancer
Sun exposure and skin cancer
Section 3: Industry and Cancer
Petrochemical plants and cancer
Pesticides and cancer
Environmental justice, equity and cancer
Asbestos, mining, mesothelioma and lung cancer
Legal issues in cancer and pollution
Section 4: War and Cancer
Agent orange and cancer
Nuclear weapons and cancer
Postscript:
The role of the physician as activist?
About the author
Eric H. Bernicker MDNeal Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX, USA
Dr. Bernicker earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX in 1990. Subsequently, he completed his residency at Baylor Affiliated Hospitals and was chief medical resident at Ben Taub General Hospital from 1993–1994. Dr. Bernicker held a faculty appointment at Baylor College of Medicine as a clinical assistant professor from 1996–2012 before joining the Houston Methodist Cancer Center in January 2013, where he serves as director of Medical Thoracic Oncology. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Bernicker oversees the expansion of clinical trials at The Methodist Hospital relating to Thoracic Oncology with all stages of disease, a combination of cooperative trials, industry trials of novel targeted agents and investigator initiated trials looking at reversing immunotherapy resistance.
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