CANCER: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic
by Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey, and Anne Wordsworth

If you don’t have cancer right now, you know someone who does. Cancer has mutated from someone else’s illness to a rapacious epidemic that has landed on our own doorstep.

We all know how lifestyle, diet and smoking can contribute to our cancer risk, but we risk being lulled into a false sense of security if we believe that butting out and avoiding trans fats will keep us safe. If it were that simple, why are so many otherwise healthy people developing cancer?

We are ignoring the biggest villain of all -- the environmental poisons that have invaded our workplaces, homes and food sources. Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic offers solid evidence that many cancers are preventable, since their causes lie with the contamination of our bodies by pollution from the air we breathe, the products we use, the water we drink, and the food we eat.

Each solution shows what individuals and families can do to reduce their risk of cancer, and then moves to solutions for community activists, healthcare workers, labor unions, cities, businesses, governments, and developing nations. The book ends with ten global solutions.

Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic abolishes the notion that controlling this terrible disease is out of our hands. It is vital reading for anyone whose lives have been touched by cancer.

GUY DAUNCEY founded the Solutions Project and is author of Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change.

LIZ ARMSTRONG is a photographer and environmental-health activist who authored Everyday Carcinogens.

ANNE WORDSWORTH is an environmental researcher and writer, and a former producer for CBC’s Health Show.