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The cancer sell
Greene, Gayle | November 24, 1997 issue

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The article highlights the book "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment," by Sandra Steingraber. "In all the years I have been under medical scrutiny, no one has ever asked me about the environmental conditions where I grew up," writes Sandra Steingraber in this powerful account by a woman who has lived with cancer since she was 21 years. The educational brochures Steingraber picks up in doctors' offices advise people to exercise, limit their fat and alcohol intake, give up smoking and ponder their life history.

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LIVING Downstream (Book); STEINGRABER, Sandra; CANCER; MEDICAL care; ALCOHOL; HISTORY
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