...activities of people, that it is a "man-made" problem, should stimulate us to understand and avoid it. John Higginson, founding director of the World Health...Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, proposed 30 years ago that two-thirds of all cancers had an environmental cause and were, therefore,...

...for about 1 to 5% of cancers. One such scientist in a good position to know is Dr. John Higginson, Director of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyons, France. Dr. Higginson recently stated that, according to the best scientific estimates, occupational...

...cast industry in the position of being responsible for all cancer incidents. Yet Dr. John Higginson, Director of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer has stated that the existing cancer pattern cannot be explained in terms of simple general pollution...

...error is in equating "environmental causes of cancer" with "occupational causes." Dr. Higginson is Director of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer. He has repeatedly stated that by environmental causes, he meant such things as sunshine and cigarettes,...

...activities of people, that it is a "man-made" problem, should stimulate us to understand and avoid it. John Higginson, founding director of the World Health...Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, proposed 30 years ago that two-thirds of all cancers had an environmental cause and were, therefore,...

...chemical pollutants are responsible for very little, if any, cancer incidence. Dr. John Higginson, then Director of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that "the available evidence suggests that control of [carcinogens] in the ambient environment...

...express their agreement with the views of many impartial experts. For example, Dr. John Higginson, then Director of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, concluded in 1980 that "the available evidence suggests that control of [carcinogens] in the ambient...

...Doll and Dr. Richard Peto; Drs. Hammond and Garfinkel, formerly of the American Cancer Society; and Dr. John Higginson, founding Director of the World...Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer. For example, the Doll and Peto study performed for the US Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) concluded...

...pollution." No one knows better how unfortunate the narrow definition of 'environment' was— and is— than Dr. John Higginson, founding director of the World...Health Organization's International Agency for Research Against Cancer. Dr. Higginson originated the statement, "60 to 90 percent of cancer is associated with...

..."any real effects will probably be undetectably small."" Thus, to quote Dr. John Higginson, former Director of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer: "The available evidence suggests that control of [carcinogens] in the ambient environment . . . will...