Radio Smart Talk for Monday, April 11:
Today, witf unveils Facing Cancer Together – a new, interactive multimedia effort in partnership with Lancaster General Health, PinnacleHealth, and WellSpan Health – to connect the stories and lives of people touched by cancer in Central Pennsylvania. Designed to inspire and guide honest conversations about the many aspects of cancer – from treatment options close to home, to survivor and caregiver concerns, to healthy lifestyle choices for cancer prevention – Facing Cancer Together will engage Central Pennsylvanians across all of our media.
Radio Smart Talk will play a large role in this effort – we'll devote at least a part of one show, every week, to conversations about cancer and its impact on all of us.
We'll begin today by talking about the project, and then we'll present a sort of "cancer 101" – a chance for you to ask any basic questions you may have about cancer, what it is, what causes it, and how and when to seek treatment.
Learn more at
http://facingcancertogether.witf.org/
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the risk to health from the Marcellus shale gas drilling.
The plans are to drill and hydrofracture as many as 160,000 wells in our State.
The quantity of chemicals injected for each well ranges from 160,000 to 600,000 pounds (80 to 300 tons) along with approximately four and a half million gallons of water.
That's 64 BILLION pounds of chemicals to be injected into our environment. The aquifers, streams, and reservoirs will be tainted, toxified.
The atmospherically released gas vapor is toxic, even a trace amount of benzene is carcinogenic.
Childhood cancers, birth defects, thyroid cancers, endocrine disorders will increase for future generations.
We need a moratorium on this drilling, and we need a thorough environmental impact study done (one wasn't) before any more drilling.
Why treat cancers when we can prevent them...??
I echo Robert's comments about the Marcellus shale gas drilling. The hydrofracture he mentioned releases toxic chemicals into our water system like benzene, arsenic, formaldehyde, to name a few, that are all known to cause bladder cancer.
When known causes of cancer are polluting our environment then we need to come together to prevent these toxins.
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