• Our polluted bodies

    • Our bodies are polluted by hundreds of chemicals that are not supposed to be there - and we don't know much about how they affect us.

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  • New cases of cancer

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    • Cancer rates are increasing

    Overall cancer rates have increased by 22 percent for women and 56 percent for men over the course of a single generation. In developed countries, the overall cancer mortality is more than twice as high as in developing countries.

    Higher risk of testicular cancer

    Between 1960 and 2002, men from Europe, the United States and New Zealand became up to 7 times more likely to suffer from testicular cancer.

    A link to chemicals

    The rates of certain types of cancer among some industrial workers are up to 10 times higher than in the general population. Children of workers handling chemical carcinogens have sharply increased cancer rates.

    A link to pollution

    Smoking remains the most important (and avoidable) risk of cancer, but lung cancer among non-smokers have doubled over the last decades. A wide range of occupational exposures and urban air pollution have been shown to cause lung cancer.

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