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Cancer and the Environment

The Environmental Health Program works collaboratively with other organizations to translate existing research and encourage new avenues of scientific investigation on the environmental and occupational causes of cancer.  Why focus on cancer and the environment?

• The incidence of cancer has risen dramatically in recent decades and today, nearly 50% of men and over 30% of women can expect to develop cancer in their lifetimes.
• Due to recent advances in heart disease, cancer is now the leading cause of mortality among men.  Other than accidents, cancer is also the leading cause of death among children.
• Although tobacco smoke is a significant and important cause of cancer, it is linked neither to the majority of cancers nor to many cancers that have increased rapidly in recent decades including melanoma, lymphomas, testicular, brain and bone marrow cancers.
• The scientific literature is replete with evidence regarding environmental and occupational links with cancer although we have failed to act on these known causes.

The following current/ongoing cancer-related project areas demonstrate how the Lowell Center-–in partnership and collaboration with cancer researchers, advocates and government officials-–translates and initiates research on the environmental and occupational causes of cancer to reverse rates of this chronic disease.

Chronicling the Environmental & Occupational Causes of Cancer
Promoting Comprehensive Cancer Prevention
Reducing Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer

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