Because of pollution , Boy 8 Years in China Already Got Lung Cancer

Because of pollution , Boy 8 Years in China Already Got Lung Cancer
Ironic , recently reported a little girl in China who was only eight years has been diagnosed with lung cancer . He is none other than the youngest lung cancer patients in China , the country with the most severe levels of pollution in the world .
Unidentified boy is living near a busy highway , precisely in the eastern province of Jiangsu . And a team of doctors accused udaralah pollution exposure that causes lung cancer in the poor kid . As reported by the Telegraph , Thursday ( 07/11/2013 ) .
Quoted in a statement to China News Service , dr . Fengdong Jie from Jiangsu Cancer Hospital , Nanjing states that the cause of lung cancer in young patients is exposure to airborne particles that are so small from motor vehicle emissions .
Haidong Kan , a professor from the School of Public Health , Fudan University , Shanghai replied ' very, very rare ' for pediatric patients with a young age for the diagnosis of lung cancer , especially presumably related to air pollution .
But Dr . It does not deny that children are much more susceptible to the effects of air pollution than adults . Only he explained that 40 percent of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking still .
As with the description of Nanjing Chest Hospital doctors who deal with more than 600 new cancer patients in 2012 , Wang Zhaoxia . According to him , the effect of cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke is a trigger for lung cancer is still the most important , but also the air pollution is a contributing factor to the emergence of the cancer .
But a few days later , the newspaper 's Jiangsu province , Modern Express reported that the boy's cause of cancer is still not confirmed by a physician , although dr . Tian Li of Nanjing Chest Hospital revealed cancer rates are increasing and the age of increasingly younger patients , the age group with the highest lung cancer occurs in patients between the ages of 20-40