Is There a Connection Between Chromium and Cancer?

Cancer Village is a group disease phenomenon that appeared in mainland China after the reform and opening up. Due to environmental pollution, most of them drink untreated sewage discharged by upstream companies, and the environment and soil are polluted. As a result, the internal mechanisms of the human body are seriously damaged, causing large-scale cancer in a village.

Cancer villages

Cancer Village is a group disease phenomenon that appeared in mainland China after the reform and opening up. due to

Hangji Village , Dayi Town , Yizheng City, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China

Hangji Village is located in Jiangsu Province

On February 2, 2015, "Vietnamese Youth News Network" reported that Ho Minh Tho, an official of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Vietnam, accepted an interview with the media, saying that water pollution caused 37 villages in central and northern Vietnam to become "cancer villages" The main reason.

According to a study by the Ministry of Environment of Vietnam, a total of 1136 people have died from cancer in these 37 villages in the past 20 years. Of the residents living near these 37 villages, 380 died of cancer.

Hu Mingshou said that they collected 814 water samples in the above villages and tested them one by one. The results show that both surface and ground water contain a large number of bacteria, chemicals and pollutants, including iron, aluminum, cadmium, benzene, arsenic, etc.

The key to solving the problem is to supply clean water. For most villages, this is still difficult to achieve. In response, Hu Mingshou said that they are planning to conduct further research and give priority to the supply of clean water to the 10 most polluted villages. ^[7]

Soil heavy metal pollution

Land pollution, especially heavy metal pollution, has brought major hidden dangers to people's lives, that is, life safety is challenged, occupational diseases are high, and the mortality rate has risen sharply. The age of death is generally advanced to about 45 years.

Zhang Jianxin, director of the Basic Scientific Research Department of Hunan Provincial Land and Resources Planning Institute, said that after surveying the health records of 70,000 people for 25 years, they found that from 1965 to 2005, the number of patients with bone cancer and bone pain showed an upward trend. In Zhuzhou, the severely affected area of heavy metal pollution, the cadmium content in the blood and urine of local people is two to five times that of normal people.

The survey was informed that, in addition to Yunnan, Guangxi, and Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other major heavy metal producing areas, many mining areas have gradually formed heavy metal contaminated land.

The Ministry of Land and Resources has publicly stated that 12 million tons of grain is polluted by heavy metals in China every year, and direct economic losses exceed 20 billion yuan. ^[8]