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# Danger Of Bone Cancer From Fluoride In Toothpaste, Drinking Water (PR)
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/bone_cancer_fluoride_0209110700/
- Published: 2011-02-09T07:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:03:48.000Z
- Description: An action alert from Samuel Epstein's Cancer Prevention Coalition claims fluoride in toothpaste and drinking water is a major avoidable cause of bone cancer, pointing to a 20 percent rise in incidence among children under 15 over three decades.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Chemical, Food Safety, #vivvo-import

# **Action Alert**

#### **February 8, 2011**

## ***Danger Of Bone Cancer From Fluoride In Toothpaste, Drinking Water***

Concerns on fluoride as a major avoidable cause of bone cancer are urgently validated by its unrecognized 20 percent increased incidence in children under the age of 15 over the last three decades. These concerns are all the more critical as 200 million citizens of all ages are still drinking fluoridated water.

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Dr. Samuel S. Epstein is Professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, and Chairman of the international Cancer Prevention Coalition. He is the author of 270 scientific publications, and author of 20 books. These include the prize winning 1978 "The Politics of Cancer", the 1995 "The Safe Shopper's Bible", the 2005 "Cancer Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War", the 2006 "What's In Your Milk?", and the 2010 "Healthy Beauty" . He is recipient of multiple awards, including the 1998 Right Livelihood Award and the 2005 Albert Schweitzer Golden Grand Medal for Humanitarianism for International Contributions to Cancer Prevention.