What are the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a cancer survivor and author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, which is now adapted into a feature-length documentary film. The President's Cancer Panel published their report about environmental cancer this year. How have chemicals from industry and agriculture affected public health? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we protect ourselves from environmental carcinogens? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

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How do chemicals in our environment impact our risk of getting cancer?

How do chemicals in our environment impact our risk of getting cancer? On the next Your Call, we'll look at the connections between the parallel explosion of human-made carcinogens and cancer rates. President Obama's Cancer Panel issued a report highlighting the links between the nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the U.S. and the incidence of cancer. Given this knowledge, how should chemicals be regulated?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Whose responsibility is it to protect us from environmentally induced cancer? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Green, director of Center for Environmental Health

Dr. Samuel Epstein, professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and author of The Politics of Cancer

Nancy Beurmeyer, senior policy strategist at the Breast Cancer Fund

Dr. Anila Jacob, senior scientist with Environmental Working Group

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