'Cancer Villages' Not Limited to China

Agence France Presse, an international news agency headquartered in Paris, distributed a report yesterday on China's so-called "cancer villages" -- communities where residents disproportionately suffer from deadly tumors due to industrial pollution.

Reports of "cancer villages" have become increasingly frequent across China, a brutal legacy of the environmental and health woes that have accompanied the nation's past 25 years of economic growth.

Of course, those of us from the "cancer village" of Hometown know all too well that environmental health disasters like this aren't found only in China.