General Discussion

is exposure to herbicides.

I grew up on a Nebraska farm, surrounded by corn fields.

(Very little is known about what causes soft tissue sarcoma. One of the few relatively accepted risk factors is herbicide exposure.)

Yesterday I learned my cousin has stage IV lung cancer, with weeks to live absent very aggressive treatment - which might extend it as much as a couple of years. She was exposed to second-hand smoke from her father, but never smoked herself. But she grew up in the same cornfields I grew up in.