Carolyn, this post reminds of of a recent NYT article, reporting the AMerican Cancer SOciety's criticism of the NIH for emphasizing environmental causes of cancer, noting genetic causes should be considered of utmost importance for study instead. What this represents to me is that the venerated cancer society thinks the government should stop investigating Monsanto and keep supporting the phama entities--I used to know how to access the amount of support given to foundations by big corporations; have lost the interest along with the ability, since foundations are so able to obscure this information now. actually, discovering corporate monetary contributions for foundations and the percentage which supported overhead was the topic of my thesis requirement for one of my study majors many yrs ago. -

".Dr. Michael Thun, an epidemiologist from the cancer society, said in an online statement that the report was “unbalanced by its implication that pollution is the major cause of cancer,” and had presented an unproven theory — that environmentally caused cases are grossly underestimated" — as if it were a fact....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/he.../07cancer.html

If anyone is interested one is able to download the entire NIH report on environmental impact on cancer all 200 pages:
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/cancerpanel