According to author Devra Davis, the historic battle against cancer failed to deal properly with issues such as tobacco, radiation, the workplace, and the global environment. The author makes the case that incriminating evidence of the causes of cancer was either overlooked or suppressed by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and by those who profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease.
The Secret History of the War on Cancer purports to show how the public health effort fought the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, and against the wrong enemies - a legacy that persists to this day. A portion of the profits from this book will go to support research on cancer prevention.
