Is the role of the environment in carcinogenesis overestimated?

Abstract:

:The dominant role of the physical and chemical environment in the development of cancer is challenged. Analyses of the etiology of skin, bladder, respiratory and gastric cancers are presented which demonstrate the considerable extent to which one's health status may modify the initiation and promotion of environmentally associated cancers. It is concluded that although environmental factors may initiate and/or promote 85 to 90 percent of all cancers this is misleading since it neglects the critical role of the individual's health status as a factor modifying carcinogenesis.

journal_name

Med Hypotheses

journal_title

Medical hypotheses

authors

Calabrese EJ

doi

10.1016/0306-9877(79)90058-6

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1979-01-01 00:00:00

pages

5-14

issue

1

eissn

0306-9877

issn

1532-2777

pii

0306-9877(79)90058-6

journal_volume

5

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