Dr Samuel Epstein, emeritus professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of several key books on cancer risks, says “based on minimal estimates” occupational carcinogenic exposures are responsible for 10 per cent of overall cancer mortality adding that for certain occupational exposures, mortality rates are much higher. He told Hazards magazine that “lifestyle academics” including Sir Richard Doll “have consciously or unconsciously become the well-touted and enthusiastic mouthpiece for industry interests, urging regulatory inaction and public complacency”, adding the “puristic pretensions of ‘the lifestylers’ for critical objectivity are only exceeded by their apparent indifference to or rejection of a steadily accumulating body of information on the permeation of the environment and workplace with industrial carcinogens and the impact of such involuntary exposures on human health.”

Cancer-gate. How to win the losing cancer war. Epstein S. ISBN 0-89503-354-2, Baywood Publishing Company Inc, USA, 2005.