Role of pesticide use on cancer incidence

Link to an article on the issue of high incidence of cancer in Punjab and its relation to
the use of pesticides.

National Cancer Rose Day

National Cancer Rose Day is observed by various cancer support groups in India
on the 22nd September. I have read somewhere that it is observed in memory of
Melinda Rose, a young woman who died of a rare form of cancer in 1996, at the age of 15.
I looked into Melinda's
home page. The thing that I found very impressive in her page is her gentle insistence
that she be known to others... as a real person and not just as a girl with cancer.