Canadian Cancer Death Rate Down – Canadian Cancer Society – Myth-Busting – 2012 05 09

Overview

The cancer death rate in Canada is going down.

DECLINES IN DEATH RATES were seen in all four major cancers ― lung, colorectal, breast and prostate.

Anti-Pesticide Lunatics are WRONG about cancer.

Their ALLEGATIONS about the IMAGINARY CANCER DANGER of pest control products have been TOTALLY FALSE, and are UNTRUE MIS-REPRESENTATIONS designed to alarm and enrage the public into believing that Anti-Pesticide PROHIBITION is somehow necessary.

There are NO pest control products that are known or probable carcinogens.

THE MYTH OF CANCER ( Web-Page )

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Canadian Cancer Society’s own web-sites STATE REPEATEDLY that scientific research does NOT provide a conclusive link between pest control products and cancer.

CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY – NO DIRECT PROOF PESTICIDES CAUSE CANCER ( Web-Page )

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Canadian Cancer Death Rate Down

THE CANCER DEATH RATE IN CANADA IS GOING DOWN, resulting in nearly 100,000 lives saved over the last 20 years ( 1988 to 2007 ).

Despite the drop in the death rate, cancer is still the leading cause of death in Canada.

On May 9th, 2012, Canadian Cancer Statistics 2012 was released by the Canadian Cancer Society, in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Statistics Canada.

DECLINES IN DEATH RATES were seen in all four major cancers ― lung, colorectal, breast and prostate.

Between 1988 and 2007, OVERALL CANCER DEATH rates dropped by 21 per cent in men and 9 per cent in women.

A smaller decline in the women’s death rate is due to the increase in lung cancer deaths among women over the same time frame.

This increase is thought to be due primarily to the fact that women’s smoking rates did not begin to decline until the 1980s, whereas in men, smoking rates began to decline in the 1960s.

The decline in smoking rates among men is a significant reason for the overall drop in the death rate for men.

The lung cancer death rate for men dropped by 30 per cent between 1988 and 2007.

Among Canadian males aged 15 and up, smoking has declined from a high of 61 per cent in 1965 to 20 per cent in 2010.

It takes time before decreases in population-wide smoking prevalence translate into drops in lung cancer incidence and death rates.

Tobacco use, along with unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, excess body weight, alcohol consumption, over-exposure to the sun and exposure to so-called environmental and workplace carcinogens, account for a substantial number of cancer diagnoses and deaths each year.

Anti-Pesticide Lunatics Are WRONG

There are NO pest control products that are known or probable carcinogens.

It is a MYTH to believe that pest control products somehow cause cancer.

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There are THOUSANDS OF DEATHS per year from KNOWN CANCER-CAUSING SUBSTANCES such as unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, excess body weight, alcohol consumption, and over-exposure to the sun.

There is NOT ONE KNOWN CANCER DEATH from the proper use of pest control products used in the Urban Landscape.

Pest control products are SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE, CAUSE NO HARM, and DO NOT CAUSE CANCER.

Canadian Cancer Society, through its promotional literature, continues to insist there is a link between pest control products and cancer, despite the fact that its U.S. counterpart, American Cancer Society, DOES NOT SHARE THE SAME VIEWPOINT.

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Canadian Cancer Society’s own web-sites STATE REPEATEDLY that scientific research does NOT provide a conclusive link between pest control products and cancer.

Even some of Canadian Cancer Society’s HIGHEST-RANKING LOBBYISTS state that the connection between cancer and pesticides is NOT CONCLUSIVE.

CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY – NO DIRECT PROOF PESTICIDES CAUSE CANCER ( Web-Page )

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