Keith Reed Greenbaum

Cancer in America Keith Reed Greenbaum

This is a statistical analysis of dying from cancer in the United States based on state death rates. The main focus is the role of the environment. A second focus is the role of lifestyle differences. The statistical method is called regression which cannot prove cause and effect but can help us understand cancer a little better. Models include lung, breast, colon, melanoma, bladder, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, pancreatic, adult leukemia, prostate, ovarian, uterine, cervical, stomach and liver. Items explored for a connection with cancer include having a dog, drinking wine, frequent sex, air pollution, visiting the dentist, and ultraviolet. By combining deaths from certain cancers together, the author discovered a predominating pattern - north. For just about all deaths from cancer, the more north we go, the more people die. The book ends when he reveals his best answer for what explains this pattern. The author studied statistics for his doctorate in Jewish studies at Brown University. He became interested in cancer when his mother came down with the disease and eventually died of it. This book resulted from a two decade project trying to figure out what cancer is from. The work has not been peer reviewed.