They can keep any acknowledgments .... I would just like to see something for those already exposed to protect them, or a means to break the cascade of events that leads to malignancy in those exposed once that sequence of events is discovered before a malignancy actually develops.
I forget where I found the original article about a French doc that first realized that cervical cancer was tied to sexual behavior. He noticed that prostitutes were often found with the disease, but nuns ( who practiced celibacy) never were, concluding that without sex, the unknown causative agent could not be transfered to someone.