Planet in Peril: China's cancer village
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Liangqiao, a small collection of huts and farms in southern China, is known as the cancer village.
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Breast cancer has risen sharply in  China's capital and its top financial centre during the last  decade due to unhealthy diets, a poor environment and increased  stress at work, state media reported on Tuesday.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  Development is not always a one-way process of environmental destruction.
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Yueqi Guo, a 17-year-old senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, grew up hearing that her grandfather in China had died because doctors failed to recognize his cancer until it was too late.
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Every year, 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer are reported, and 230,000 women die of disease. Nearly 80 percent of these cases occur in underdeveloped and poverty-stricken countries.
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A study of more than 1 million South Koreans suggests diabetes can raise the risk of developing and dying from several types of cancer, including digestive-tract tumors.
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SHANGHAI, China - Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads over the county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.
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China says 312 million villagers face water shortages or use water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic and organic or industrial pollutants.
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Rising tobacco use and poverty will  fuel cancer across the developing world, more than doubling the  number of new cases to 27 million by 2050, experts predicted on  Thursday.
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China either didn't know or didn't care that its test of a satellite killer would produce a spray of space debris. Either way, it's worrisome for the future use of space.  Another question is why China even bothered.
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It is rare for a foreign doctor to get to China&#39;s rural areas, where its AIDS epidemic was born and takes a horrible toll. But recently, two nurses and I ventured into a poor farming area, Nizui
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Increasing numbers of Chinese urban women are  suffering from breast cancer due to unhealthy diets and a spike in work stress in the rapidly modernising country, state media said Tuesday.
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China accounts for about half of the global annual death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese taste for pickled and smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for smoking, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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A recent survey has found that one out of every five children in the north China municipality of Tianjin is overweight. For each hour a day spent in front of the television the risk increases an average of
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Excerpt from report by By Feng Jianhua headlined: "A Polluter's paradise?" in English by Chinese publication Beijing Review on 14 September  The 60-year-old man, surnamed Chen, faces an awkward situation.
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A team of South Korean scientists have found a way to solve the cancer paradox of why aging cells with reduced ability to proliferate are susceptible to cancer, characterized
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China&#39;s economic transformation is damaging the health of many of its people, with millions of urban professionals suffering from stress and the change to more fatty western diets.