China: Cancer Villages · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

Shelley Jiang from Tea Leaf Nation blogs about the painful cost of development in China –  the increasing number of cancer villages all over the country:
Officially and unofficially, the Chinese media have reported 459 “cancer villages” throughout China… Once a rare disease, cancer is now the biggest killer in both urban and rural China; mortality rates have grown 80 percent in the last 30 years.