Selection 31: Living Downstream: An ecologist looks at cancer and the environment.

Getting to deeply know bladder cancer, and researching it . it has been found out that bladder carcinogens were among the earliest human carcinogens ever identified. However, almost half of all bladder cancers among men and one third among women are deemed to be linked to smoking cigarette. Smoking has always been thought to be the single most known reason for such a disease. On the other hand, among scientific articles, ongoing presence of known and suspected bladder carcinogens in seas and groundwater, indoor air even. For instance, industries that report toxics release of the aromatic chemical forms in refineries and other manufacturing plants. Even if levels of these contaminants are within their legal workplace limits, but blood and urine collected from employees were found to contain levels of these toxic chemicals. Our issues with genes obsession is what is preventing us from addressing cancer’s environmental roots. It is required that we begin to survey our present situation, with a human right approach such as regulating the use, release and disposal of known and suspected carcinogens. a human right approach would also recognize that we are not all taking equal risk when it comes to carcinogens circulating within our environment.