Suggested References and Resources

Cancer

Canadian Cancer Society

Richard Clapp Environment and Health: 4. Cancer CMAJ 2000;163(8):1009-12. (On cancer in general.)

Fact sheet on Childhood Cancer from a Congressional Briefing conducted by the Children's Environmental Health Network.

Health Canada. Laboratory Centre for Disease Control. The Battle Which I Must Fight. Cancer in Canada's Children and Teens. (A useful resource for parents and children.)

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Web site has cancer databases, monographs and other resources.

The (US) National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens gives succinct summaries of about 200 known or probable human carcinogens.

Immune System Effects

Environmental Illness Society of Canada  

Immunotoxicology. Health Effects Review, January-March 1997; Volume 2, Issue 2. Summarizes the components of the immune system and the potential for immunotoxic effects from environmental exposures.

Wingspread Consensus - Statement from the Work Session on Chemically Induced Alterations in the Developing Immune System: The Wildlife/Human Connection. Racine, Wisconsin February 1995.

Potent Immune System Poison: Dioxin. Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly #414;November 3, 1994.

Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project. United Nations Environment Programme. Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion. Interim Summary, September 1997.