Shouldn't the cancer warning be writ large on the bottle, as well as in the consumer's mind?
Rachel Carson's classic cri de coeur, "Silent Spring," featured a whole chapter on cancer, warning that we were "living in a sea of carcinogens".
Nearly half the respondents (1732: 46.1%) had experienced at least one symptom from the cancer warning sign list in the past 3 months.
It is notable that in the control school despite a statistically significant decrease in the percentage of adolescents who were unable to recall a cancer warning sign between T0 and T1 there was a statistically significant increase in the percentage identifying 'hair loss' as a cancer warning sign, and decreases in the percentage recalling 'change in the appearance of a mole' and 'weight loss'.
Pfizer's chief executive, Ian Read, rejected Soriot's cancer warning in his appearance before the science committee.
In response to the cancer warning, the US biotech company has been quick to accuse the body behind the new classification of bias.
* Ban for HRT in cancer warning FRANCE FACES 'FLOODS OF THE CENTheY' The banks of the Rhone delta "threatened to burst" last night as parts of southern France experienced torrential rain and flooding, the Independent reports.
The "do not delay" campaign reached its heyday in the 1940s, when through lectures, newspaper articles, posters and public health films, doctors exhorted people to survey their bodies for cancer warning signs like breast lumps, irregular bleeding and persistent hoarseness.
Further, they were more aware that paying attention to cancer warning signs can lead to early detection of cancer.
Research published in the British Journal of General Practice, and funded by Cancer Research UK, looked at why people dismiss obvious cancer warning symptoms.
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing how they make an ingredient in their drinks to avoid being legally obliged to put a cancer warning label on the bottle.
