Along an 85-mile stretch of road in Louisiana, residents have seven times the cancer risk than the national average, have been diagnosed with chronic health conditions and babies are born underweight at three times the national average.
This road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans – on the banks of the Mississippi River – has been dubbed ‘Cancer Alley’ and the people with houses along it blame the high rates of illnesses on the place they live.
The area is home to approximately 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical operations – the largest concentration of these facilities in the western hemisphere. Continue reading
With many clinicians and healthcare workers leaving the industry, leaders need to pay attention, Adrienne Boissy says.
Published on the first generation Federal Observer website sometime in late 2001 or early 2002. Life goes on and nothing really changes.
A pancreatic cancer diagnosis can be startling. One young survivor, who battled this disease during the COVID-19 pandemic, shares how he overcame the odds: “Every day is a gift.”
Nobody welcomes a cancer diagnosis. While some would rather know and get started on treatment right away, others may choose to avoid doctors and turn a blind eye to unusual symptoms.
The study by researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) found that rice, wheat, leafy green vegetables, baby foods and dark chocolates with high heavy metal concentrations are connected to the thousands of cancer cases each year. Foods contaminated with metals such as lead and cadmium were linked to cases of bladder and lung cancer.
According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 1,762,450 new cancer cases were diagnosed before the end of 2019. Of that number, approximately 606,880 Americans, nearly 1,662 each day, died.
No, no, no… we are not talking about political cancer here – although politics does have a nasty way of contributing to this epidemic by way of ignoring the economic drain upon the afflicted, to include the cost of care (they really don’t), ‘treatment’ and drugs. In addition – THEY have chosen – by corporate bribe – to ignore the Truth as relates to the dreaded dis-ease known throughout the world as CANCER. 
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