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Winning the War On Cancer?

This year’s annual report from the CDC and cancer organizations trumpets falling death rates from the disease, but Dr Devra Lee Davis says additional risks could have been tackled long ago.

While overall death rates from cancer are dropping, the number of new cancer diagnoses is on the rise, especially among children, African Americans and Native Americans. Dr. Devra Lee Davis is the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh. She tells host Steve Curwood
about her new book “The Secret History of the War on Cancer” and about why cancer rates are increasing.