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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(1):9-11; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.1.9
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 1, 9-11, January 3, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

NEWS

News Headlines Feed on Fear of Cancer Risk, Experts Say

Tom Reynolds

What’s the cancer risk headline for this week? Recently, cell phones and breast implants have—once again—been hot topics as research findings and legal settlements are announced, but it’s anyone’s guess what new cancer fears will turn up next on the news pages and the airwaves.

In a book published last year, S. Robert Lichter, Ph.D., president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, Washington, D.C., and Stanley Rothman, Ph.D., director of the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., argue that the environmentalist movement has been so successful in winning the hearts and minds of journalists that media coverage of cancer causes is skewed sharply toward environmental bugaboos that cause few if any cases of human cancer.



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