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Cancer on the rise in Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – The number of cancer patients in Vietnam has been on the steep increase, oncology experts told a seminar on cancer prevention in HCMC last week. 

Craft village: more well-off households, but more cancer deaths

VietNamNet Bridge - Van Mon craft village in Bac Ninh province has been well known in Vietnam as an aluminum recycling village for 50n years. It became even better known recently as a “cancer village”. 

Contaminated groundwater blamed for commune cancer deaths

 VietNamNet Bridge – The high number of deaths from cancer in a commune in Phu Yen Province has raised serious questions about the safety of the groundwater used by local residents in their daily lives.