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All the world cares about the prevention of cruelty to animals, about saving them from the clutches of the vivisectionists, yet no one seems concerned about hundreds of thousands of mishandled children and battered babies. The case is similar with respect to cancer risks. The largely improbable cancer risk due to traces of formaldehyde in our environment is publicized extensively by the mass media while the certain genesis of skin cancer by light (Blum 1959; Urbach et al. 1974; Urbach 1982; Vitaliano et al. 1980) gets virtually no public attention. The best prevention of this highest of all cancer risks can, therefore, only be achieved in the untiring and patient education of the public by scientists and medical men.
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Ippen, H. (1987). Cancer Risk from Ultraviolet Radiation. In: Bannasch, P. (eds) Cancer Risks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71843-4_11
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