Diagnosed with bladder cancer in her twenties while her mother
was living with metastasized breast cancer, author and biologist
Sandra Steingraber is the subject of tonight’s film, Living
Downstream, directed by our guest Chanda Chevannes. Sandra
cannot help but notice a cancer cluster in both her family and
in her hometown, including an aunt who died of the same type of
cancer she had. But here’s the rub: Sandra is adopted, so the
genetic cause is ruled out, leaving her to conclude that
environmental pollution is at the root.