Canadian Cancer Society launches online handbook outlining environmental cancer risks

The Canadian Cancer Society’s new online handbook called The Environment, Cancer and You that outlines environmental substances that are known to or suspected of causing cancer. The handbook also offers advice on how to limit these environmental exposures.

The handbook includes advice on a wide variety of substances or phenomena including asbestos, phthalates in plastics, flame retardants, teflon and non-stick cookware, radon gas, electromagnetic fields and water chlorination by-products—some known to pose a cancer risk, others subjects of popular concern but unproven risks. It also discusses labeling of consumer products.

For the full story, go to The Canadian Press.

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