Results tagged “cancer”

Ever wonder what happens to your old electronics? 60 Minutes aired a story on the dirty underbelly of electronics "recycling" in the States, and it turns out that a significant amount of American "e-waste" ends up in Chinese landfills. As if China didn't produce enough garbage of its own, computers, cell phones, household electronics, and pretty much anything with petty salvageable parts find their way to Chinese junkyards, and are burned, ripped apart and corroded for valuable metals.

We saw a curious little blurb on Shanghai Daily this morning calling all expat children to head over to the Shanghai Discovery Children’s Museum (上海儿童博物) on May 30 to meet kids with leukemia. Our interest piqued, we gave them a call.

Here's something to brighten up your day: Cancer statistics. According to the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 350 people in every 100,000 in the city have cancer. Cancer constituted the cause of death for 30% of local death cases and has killed 219 out of every 100,000 residents. Males were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than females. Source: Shanghai Daily

You know how at real Chinese restaurants all over town, the waiters always look at you funny when you ask for a glass of ice water because locals normally drink tea water about the temperature of the surface of the sun? Well you can laugh in their smug "Oh these foreigners and their addiction to cold drinks" faces - because now there's studies saying that hot tea, tea over the temperature of 70C, has been linked to oesophageal cancer!

Caijing Magazine shares some startling statistics on cancer in China, where smoking, poor diet, water pollution and environmental problems have caused the nation's cancer death rate to rise 80 percent in the past 30 years. The statistics come from an exhaustive survey conducted by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science and Technology. According to the survey, cancer is now accountable for 25 percent of all urban deaths and 21 percent of all rural deaths. Although the rising cancer death rate has long been attributed to an aging population, this recent survey still found that the nation's lung cancer death rate rose 261 percent after adjusting statistics for age.

France24 uncovers a heavily-polluted town called Xiditou 300km southeast of Beijing, where lead levels in the water are 300 times the recommended safe amounts. This is one of dozens of "cancer villages" around China, and a whopping 10% of the population have died so far. Even that stray dog towards the end of clip looks so sick. Yikes.

1. university students who might be studying medicine and could use the cash, 2. people who want to further the cause of medicine (and who might be sick themselves, and thus have a stake in it), and 3. people who are in it just for the money.