This Canadian criticism of the role of capitalism in creating environments conducive to cancer and then burying the costs along with the victims, concludes a different  approach is needed if cancer is to be prevented. “We can win the war against cancer. The best available research is necessary, but not sufficient, for our victory. Cancer research is designed and undertaken, and the results published and acted upon, in a deeply political context. The social, political and economic changes necessary to win the war against cancer will require more than research alone. It will also require collective action, the uniting of movements that have operated for the most part independently. The combined wisdom and skills of activists in the environmental, occupational health, women’s health and nutrition movements will be needed to successfully challenge the status quo and to insist that science, the state and corporations operate in the public interest. That is what is needed to stem the cancer tide that is sweeping across Canada and beyond.”

Lissa Donner and Robert Chernomas. The Cancer Epidemic as a Social Event, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, March 2004. ISBN: 0-88627-357-9.