M Y is a shopkeeper in Zengfeng, a village in the district of Jinshan. He took part in several protests last week.
Cancer is so widespread in my village that everyone has at least three loved ones that have been struck by cancer. My 66-year-old mother has lung cancer. My 57-year-old uncle, who worked in a petrochemical factory, has blood cancer. And my sister-in-law, who's 33 years old, has breast cancer. From 2006 to 2009, in barely three years, there were around 30 deaths from cancer out of 3,400 residents in the village. That's without precedent [Editor's note: The figure was published in a study carried out by a University Hospital in Beijing.That's more than twice the national average, according to Xinhua]. Last year, our village was listed as being one of 'hundreds of cancer villages' by the press, but I'm not even surprised. That's what it's like for every family here.
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