To form a Local Office Network in your area contact, The Oklahoma CPC Director, Mr. Daniel Langston, IH, CHEM, MLT (ASCP) at (XXX) XXX-XXXX.

      STATEMENT OF PURPOSE     Stop Cancer Before It Starts

Fighting for a safer environment at home, in the community and at work. The Cancer Prevention Coalition, Inc. (CPC), which opened its national office in Chicago in July 1994, is a unique nationwide coalition of leading independent experts in cancer prevention and public health, together with citizen activists and representatives of organized labor, public interest, environmental and women's health groups. Our goal is to reduce escalating cancer rates through a comprehensive strategy of outreach, public education, advocacy and public policy initiatives to establish prevention as the nation's foremost cancer policy.

The Founder and Chairman of the CPC is the International Leading Authority on the Causes and Prevention of Cancer, Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. is emeritus Professor of environmental medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, and Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. He has published some 260 peer reviewed articles, and authored or co-authored 10 books including: the prize-winning 1978 The Politics of Cancer; the 1995 Safe Shopper's Bible; the 1998 Breast Cancer Prevention Program; and the 1998 The Politics of Cancer, Revisited.  Dr. Epstein is an internationally recognized authority on avoidable causes of cancer, particularly unknowing exposures to industrial carcinogens in air, water, the workplace, and consumer products--food, cosmetics and toiletries, and household products including pesticides--besides carcinogenic prescription drugs.

Dr. Epstein's past public policy activities include: consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Public Works; drafting Congressional legislation; frequently invited Congressional testimony; membership of key federal committees including EPA's Health Effects Advisory Committee, and the Department of Labor's Advisory Committee on the Regulation of Occupational Carcinogens; and key expert on banning of hazardous products and pesticides including DDT, Aldrin and Chlordane. He is the leading international expert on cancer risks of petrochemicals and of consumer products including: rBGH milk; meat from cattle implanted with sex hormones in feedlots, on which he has testified for the E.C. at January 1997 WTO hearings; and irradiated food. In 1998, he presented "Legislative Proposals for Reversing the Cancer Epidemic" to the Swedish Parliament, and in 1999 to the U.K. All Parliamentary Cancer Group. He is also the leading critic of the cancer establishment, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and American Cancer Society (ACS), for fixation on damage control -- screening, diagnosis and treatment, and genetic research--with indifference for cancer prevention, which for the ACS extends to hostility. This mindset is compounded by conflicts of interest with the cancer drug industry, and also with the petrochemical and other industries in the case of the ACS.

His past professional society involvement includes: founder of the Environmental Mutagen Society; President of the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health; President of the Rachel Carson Council; and advisor to environmental, citizen activist and organized labor groups.

His numerous honors include: the 1969 Society of Toxicology Achievement Award; the 1977 National Wildlife Federation Conservancy Award; the 1989 Environmental Justice Award; the 1998 Right Livelihood Award ("Alternative Nobel Prize") for international contributions to cancer prevention; the 1999 Bioneers Award; and the 2000 Project Censored Award ("Alternative Pulitzer Prize" for investigative journalism) for an article critiquing the American Cancer Society. Dr. Epstein has extensive media experience with: numerous regional and national radio programs, including NPR; major TV programs, including Sixty Minutes, Face the Nation, Meet the Press, McNeil/Lehrer, Donohue, Good Morning America, and the Today Show; Canadian, European, Australian and Japanese TV; and numerous editorials and letters to leading national newspapers.

Dr. Epstein is also a member of the National Writers Union, AFL-CI0.

The Oklahoma Director of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, is Mr. Daniel Langston, with some twenty-five years of experience in environmental health, occupational safety and health, and preventive medicine experience. Langston gained most of his experience with the U.S. Military in commands in such areas as the Philippines, Iceland, Germany, and Washington. He as served in positions as the Head of Industrial Hygiene or Iceland, and Europe, and served as the Admiral’s Safety Advisor. He is looking forward to helping educate Oklahoman’s on how to avoid and prevent cancer. Cancer does not just happen, and genetics does not just doom people to contracting cancer. By the use of press releases, local education campaigns, and involvement of every community in Oklahoma, we can start Winning the War Against Cancer, now. For help in your area, contact Dan Langston at (XXX) XXX-XXXX, or e-mail XXX@XXXXX.com

More information on the Cancer Prevention Coalition can be found on its website www.preventcancer.com