Land of fires: too many cancers, deaths and hospitalizations among children

    Land of fires: too many cancers, deaths and hospitalizations among children

    Too many deaths, too many hospitalizations, especially among children and adolescents. Welcome to the Land of Fires. According to the Istisan Report, the result of the survey on the Terra dei Fuochi and published on the website of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, the data relating to mortality in the developmental age are similar to those observed in the rest of Campania but the number of hospitalized young people living in the Land of Fires is higher



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    Too many dead, too many admissions especially among children and adolescents. Welcome to the Land of Fires. According to Relationship Istisan, result of the survey on the Terra dei Fuochi and published on the website ofIstituto Superiore di Sanita, the data relating to mortality in the developmental age are similar to those observed in the rest of Campania but the number of hospitalized young people living in the Terra dei Fuochi is higher.

    Le figures refer to period between 2005 and 2011, before the intervention of the legislator, and belong to the study commissioned by the Ministry of Health to implement adequate prevention strategies.

    The Istituto Superiore di Sanità had carried out an evaluation of the data relating to mortality (2005-2011) and hospital admissions (2005-2011) in 55 municipalities in the provinces of Naples and Caserta. In 17 of these, served by the Cancer Registry of ASL Napoli 3 Sud, it was also possible to study the incidence of tumors.

    According to the report, disclosed in 2015, the epidemiological picture of the population examined is characterized by a series of excesses in mortality, tumor incidence and hospital admissions for various diseases, which admit

    “From i loro known or suspected risk factors exposure to pollutants emitted or released from illegal hazardous waste disposal sites and uncontrolled combustion of both hazardous and solid urban waste. In particular, there are excesses of children hospitalized in the first year of life for all tumors and excesses of tumors of the central nervous system, the latter also in the 0-14 age group ”.

    Children are particularly vulnerable to environmental pollution and this has prompted the Istituto Superiore di Sanità to investigate the data relating to their health.



    It emerged that the mortality for tumors of the infantile population of the Terra dei Fuochi it is not in excess of that of the reference population. The speech changes for the number of hospitalizations. In the municipalities of the Terra dei Fuochi in the Province of Naples, children in the first year of life show an excess of hospitalizations of 51% for all cancers and 45% for leukemia e the incidence of central nervous system tumors has more than doubled.

    In pediatric age (0-14 years), on the other hand, an excess of 42% was recorded for tumors of the central nervous system, which also concerns adolescence (29%).

    Other more specific data concern the individual municipalities. For example, a Casalnuovo of Naples (in the first year of life the incidence of total tumors doubled and that of central nervous system tumors increased fivefold. Furthermore, mortality from all tumors in the age groups 0-14 and 0-19 was doubled. A Terzigno on the other hand, excess hospitalizations for all cancers of 79% and 55% were found in the age groups 0-14 and 0-19, respectively, and tripled the incidence of tumors of the central nervous system.

    Among the adults living in the Terra dei Fuochi included in the Province of Naples, men have an incidence of cancer and a mortality that is 11% higher than that of the reference population. In women, these figures are 9% and 7% respectively. No.

    "All these diseases admit various certain or suspected causal factors, including emissions or releases from hazardous waste disposal sites and uncontrolled combustion of waste" explains the ISS.

    However, there was no lack of data controversy. As reported by Mattino, Dr. Mario Fusco, head of the cancer registry of ASL Napoli 3 Sud, a scholar who provided the data to the Higher Institute of Health, would even speak of a falsehood:



    “But their report is false. The phenomenon of excess and the incidence of general and infant mortality does not concern only the 17 municipalities of Asl Napoli 3 Sud della Terra dei Fuochi, but also the other 18 municipalities of competence, which do not fall within that label. I have provided all the data, but they have been omitted ”.

    The numbers, however, give an idea of ​​the damage that the malfeasance applied to waste management has caused citizens innocent.

    Francesca Mancuso

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