Disease Associations

Cancer Epidemic Caused by Cigarette Smoking

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 18th, 2001

The U.S. "cancer epidemic" was caused solely by cigarette smoking and environmental pollution played little role in it, claim University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers.

In an analysis of cancer death rates going back 50 years, pathologist Brad Rodu, DDS, concluded, "There is no denying the existence of environmental problems, but the present data show that they produced no striking increase in cancer mortality."

The researchers reported their study in the January 1, 2001, issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Isolated increases in cancer deaths may occur as geographical "clusters" due to abnormal environmental...

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