Pollution, chemicals blamed for China's cancer rise

afp ^ | 5/21/07 | afp

[Flavius]

"The main reason behind the rising number of cancer cases is that pollution of the environment, water and air is getting worse by day," the paper quoted Chen Zhizhou, a cancer expert at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, as saying.

[Flavius]

you know the drill

garbage in garbage out

all for a dollar

[kinoxi]

A very sad situation.

[Flavius]

thats what happens when you sqush in communist 5 year plan and 100 years of guerrilla capitalism into 10 years

[kinoxi]

You are right.

[LukeL]

I am sure this is part of the problem but you also have to figure that life expectancy is on the rise and therefore cancer rates will go up.

This is sort of like why cancer rates have gone up in America, we have been able to treat heart disease and strokes very well, therefore people are living old enough to get cancer.

Just remember we all have to die of something and that figures don't lie, but liars will figure.

[kinoxi]

I understand your point. Chemicals cause Cancer however and the relatively haphazard distribution in China shows from what I have read.

[Let's Roll]

OR it could be their cavalier attitude toward their food supply.

[television is just wrong]

wow, China might not be as big an economic threat as once thought. They are poisoning themselves. Sad in a lot of ways.

[JLS]

Yeah, I just look up what I guessed was one contributing factor. The Chinese life expectancy is of course growing. The longer you live the greater chance cancers that would not have happened had you died at a younger age.

[zipper]

Yes I think longer lifespans are part of the reason cancer is increasingly the culprit regarding death in China, but the pollution in their major cities like Shanghai has to be seen to be believed. In the middle of the day in downtown Shanghai you can stare directly at the sun without a cloud in the sky, because there is so much pollution the sun is filtered out like looking through a thick, yellow-gray plastic filter. In a view from a high-rise hotel you are shocked to see how thick the pollution is that blankets the city. Much worse than even L.A.

Statistics — the country of China is adding the power-grid equivalent of two Californias per year, and is adding a million cars a year to their roads.

But the libs wanted us to sign Kyoto, and give India and China a pass — HA

[rod1]

Sounds like China was really the one the Kyoto Accords should have conernedfirst and foremost and not the U.S.. Yet because it is a leftist political strategy and not really a scientific plan, the biggest current and future polluters get a pass.

[starbase]

Japan, The Land of the Rising Sun

China, The Land of the Chemical Spill