Pollution: A Chinese Eight Years With Lungs Cancer

The girl inhaled over a long period of dust and harmful particles. He is the youngest person with lung cancer in China.

Chinese doctors have diagnosed with lung cancer in a girl of 8 years, attributing the cause of air pollution, which has become a scourge for public health in China.

The child, whose identity has not been revealed, has become the youngest person diagnosed with lung cancer in China. She lives near a highway in the eastern province of Jiangsu, reported news agency New China.

According to Dr. JieFengdong, doctor of a hospital specializing in cancer of the city of Nanjing, the girl breathed over a long period of dust and harmful particles.

Lung cancers are rare in children. They are diagnosed on average at the age of 70, according to the American Cancer Society.

The pollution air now causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year in China.

In 30 years, the number of deaths from lung cancer has increased by more than four in the country, according to health authorities. Cancer is such became the first cause of death in the capital, Beijing.

Are considered particularly dangerous PM 2.5 particles-of a diameter less than or equal to 2.5 microns, which penetrate deep into the lungs. In Beijing and other Chinese cities, the density of PM 2.5 levels exceeding regularly reached nearly 40 times the maximum recommended by the WHO.

The China, the world automobile market, derives more than 70% of its energy from coal combustion. Its environment is threatened by numerous polluting industries, the traffic constantly expanding and lax to protect ecosystems.

Pollution: A Chinese Eight Years With Lungs Cancer