Environmental Oncology

The Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh is organizing studies regarding environmental causes of cancer. These causes are in our food, beauty products and cleaning supplies. Billions of Dollars have been spent on detecting and treating cancer. Resources have also been utilized for genetic causes of cancer. Genetic susceptibility account for less than 10% of caner cases. Unfortunetly, less money and resources have been devoted to finding environmental causes of cancer. 90% of us are born with healthy genes. During our lifetime, some environmental factor initiates the cancer process. Whether this is in products we use daily at our homes or our environment needs to be studied.