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Few areas of scientific research have received as much public attention in recent years as has the study of cancer. But because cancer is the object of profound uncertainty and fear among laymen, and because its causes are still largely inscrutable to scientists, there is great potential for distortion, oversimplification, and sensationalism in the translation of tentative scientific findings into popular knowledge. The American Council on Science and Health has recently published a report by Dr. Elizabeth Whalen, its Executive Director, in which she tries to rectify some of these common misinterpretations of current cancer research.

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