Study Examining High Cancer Incidence in U.S. South
Study Examining High Cancer Incidence in U.S. South
Researchers plan to recruit 90,000 people in 12 Southern states in an effort to learn why the South has become the cancer belt of the United States and why blacks have higher rates of several kinds of cancer, United Press International reported.
Brain cancer and lung cancer are among those that disproportionately affect people living in the South.
"When you look at a map of brain cancer incidence in the United States the Southeast just lights up in red," Dr. Reid Thompson, of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville said in a news release.
The researchers will look at study participants' lifestyles, family medical histories and risk factors for cancer and other serious diseases, UPI reported.
"We're asking patients about their diets, possible job-related exposure to cancer causing chemicals, and we're collecting DNA samples," Thompson said.
http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=617685
All they need to look at is nutrition to explain most of all cancer cases.
How much do you want to bet - they go off looking at everything but that?
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