Beating Cancer
In this video, Samuel Epstein spends about 39 minutes speaking on "Beating Cancer" at the 39th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Samuel Epstein
SAMUEL EPSTEIN, M.D. was born and educated in England. He received his Doctorate of Medicine with honors at Guy's Hospital, London in 1950, and he became a qualified Specialist in Pathology, Tropical Medicine and Internal Medicine. He had a distinguished medical career in England, including Specialist in Pathology, Royal Army Medical Corps, where he was awarded 3 major military prizes, lecturer in Pathology and Bacteriology, University of London, and British Empire Cancer Campaign Research Fellow, in conjunction with the Chester Beatty Cancer Research Institute, and Tumor Pathologist at The Hospital for Sick Children, and Great Ormond Street, London.
In 1960, he was invited to the United States, where he founded the Laboratories of Carcinogenesis and Toxicology, and The Children's Cancer Research Foundation in Boston. He was also appointed Senior Research Associate in Pathology at Harvard Medical School.
Currently, Dr. Epstein is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago. He is an internationally recognized scientific authority on cancer prevention and on the toxic and carcinogenic effects of environmental pollutants in the air, water, food and the workplace.
Dr. Epstein is the author of some 280 scientific articles and 20 books, including the prize-winning The Politics of Cancer, Hazardous Waste in America, and is co-author, with David Steinman, of The Safe Shoppers Bible, The Breast Prevention Program, The Politics Of Cancer Revisited and the latest, printed in 2005, Cancer-Gate: How To Win The Losing Cancer War.
Dr. Epstein's activities bridging science and public policy include former consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Public Works, frequently invited Congressional testimony, and member of Federal Agency Advisory Committees including the Health Advisory Committee of EPA and the Department of Labor Advisory Committee on the Regulation of Occupational Carcinogens. He has been Chairman of the Air Pollution Control Association Committee on Biological Effects of Air Pollutants, President of the Society of Occupational and Environmental Health, Founder and Secretary of the Environmental Mutagen Society and former President of the Rachel Carson Council.
He is also the Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, formed in 1993 to focus public attention on the avoidable cancer epidemic and to develop policies and strategies based on grass roots initiatives to reverse the losing war against cancer. The Coalition has become a leading group of independent experts on cancer prevention and public health, together with citizen activists, organized labor, public interest and women's cancer groups. They may be contacted at (312) 996-2297, fax: (312) 996-1374, website: www.preventcancer.com or e-mail: [email protected].
On October 7, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden, Dr. Epstein was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, better known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize" for his contributions to cancer prevention.
On June 10, 2005 (at a ceremony at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland), he was awarded the Albert Schweitzer Golden Grand Medal for Humanitarianism, for International Contributions to Cancer Prevention.
Transcription
Is the volume of this OK? Or is it too loud? It's OK. OK. Tell me if it has any problems anyway. Thank you very much for that.
Very nice and generous introduction and also thank Lorraine Rosendahl for having been in contact with me for four decades in relation to the organization of this very, very splendid group and its programs and also supplying her with information on avoidable causes of cancer. Now. The title, which for which you see now, the National Cancer Institute Criminal Responsibility for Losing the Cancer War. This is the title of a recent book of mine, which came out about three months or so ago, two to three months ago, which looks into the other, which summarizes readily available information on the criminal responsibility of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. Now, these are words that you don't use lightly when you talk about criminal. You better be damn sure you know what you're talking about. Well, I do know damn sure what I'm talking about in a published in great detail in on these issues. And the it's not arguable, in fact, as you will make up your own mind as you as you bear with me all along.
Now, let me have the first slide, please. What do I press something to get them? I think you showed me before what I do. So many here. OK. All right. OK, fine. Thank you.
Well, let's give you just a general very, very simple overview of what's happening. We're losing a winnable war against cancer. And the Federal National Cancer Institute. And the nonprofit and, quote, nonprofit American Cancer Society, the quotation marks around nonprofit are really very, very well based because it's a it's a for profit organization. And these Organa, these two groups, namely the Federal National Cancer Institute and the nonprofit American Cancer Society. They have spent tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer and charity dollars on treatment, while to all intents and purposes ignoring prevention with one small exception when it comes to American Cancer Society. The exception is if you get cancer, it's your own fault, your stupid, insofar that you don't know how to take care of yourself and you eat the wrong foods, et cetera, et cetera. In other words, it's what we call blame the victim. Now, as a result of this fundamental issue, tens of billions have developed cancer over over many, many decades. And cancer result cancer rates have now escalated to an epidemic, literally an epidemic. Nearly one in two men and more than one in three women are afflicted with cancer in their lifetime. And not surprisingly, the more