Chasing the Cancer Answer

Wendy Mesley just got off CBC radio talking about her Marketplace documentary "Chasing the Cancer Answer," which will re-air in an extended one-hour cut this Monday April 17 and 8pm on CBC Newsworld.

If you decide to watch it (and tape Prison Break), you'll learn a lot of things someone should have told you by now. Like the fact that almost 1 in 2 children born today will have cancer in their lifetimes. Or that a recent study found that the average Canadian has 44 heavy metals, pesticides, and other toxic chemicals in their blood. Or that the Canadian Cancer Society only spends 10% of their budget on prevention (and even that is mostly spent on healthy eating and anti-smoking campaigns).

What can the government do? Well, for a start they could ban carcinogens from being used in personal products (there are carcinogens in my shampoo? in my food?), or at least require that those carcinogens are listed on the label (...labeling isn't required?).

How is it possible there's still only one political party in Canada that thinks this is a priority? Are we going to wait until 1 in 1 children are destined to have cancer?