NEWS | SUNDAY 14.04.2013 . Uranium - the silent killer of the Serbian citizens Source: AFP Institute for Public Health of Serbia Dr Milan Jovanovic- Trampoline showed that in the last ten years the number of patients with leukemia and lymphoma increased by 110 percent , while the number of umrih of these diseases increased by 180 percent . President of the Serbian Society for the fight against cancer Professor Slobodan Čikarić says to this fact is not surprising , because in Serbia during the NATO bombing dumped 15 tons of depleted uranium , which is the smallest amount of highly carcinogenic - cancer-causing , but also leads to genetic mutations - the birth offspring with mental and physical deformities. He explained that the depleted uranium , which is thrown in Kosovo and Metohija and the edges Pčinjski district to stay in this field forever , because its decomposition during the four and a half billion years . However , not only the people of Serbia affected by its impact, as windblown dust, depleted uranium has arrived in many European countries . How far is all the depleted uranium could arrive in Europe and what consequences does to people interested in the German Bundestag delegation , which recently visited the Serbian Society for the fight against cancer . The uranium is first transformed into dust which is carried by the wind over Serbia , but also around the Balkans , even arrived in Aviano , where planes carrying bombs . Then dust particles are deposited on the ground and so got into surface water , plants animals and entered the food chain , explained Professor . Čikarić . He added that the disease does not occur immediately after the action of carcinogens , but must pass a certain latent period , which for leukemia and lymphoma is an average of seven and a half years , and for solid tumors - breast , cervical , lung , colon .. this latent period averaging fifteen years . Čikarić notes that the latent period for leukemia and lymphoma passed and that the majority of patients reported following eight years of bombing. We tracked the movement of malignant tumors since 2001. Till 2010. , And noted that the incidence of malignant lymphoma and leukemia increased by 110 percent , while the incidence of all tumors together and leukemia and solid tumors increased by 20 percent , said Čikarić . He added that next year is expected explosion of solid malignant tumors , because it is the year of their clinical manifestation of the effects of depleted uranium . Our research has shown that since 2001. Till 2008th years the number of new cases of cancer increased by two per cent , to 2009. Compared to 2008. Was increased by six percent, and 2010th in comparison to 2008. Ten percent . This is our sign that next year we can expect an explosion of solid malignant tumors , as has happened 2006th year with leukemia and lymphoma , said Čikarić . Translated into numbers in 2001. in Serbia is found 30.744 novobolelih cancer , and 2010th 37 412 new cases were discovered . How do you assess teacher Čikarić just this year in Serbia will be revealed 40,000 newly registered malignant tumor , while the tumor die malihnih 22,000 to 23,000 people . Nuclear physicist Vladimir Ajdačić adds that already in southern Serbia , in areas where it is dumped most of depleted uranium , the observed genetic mutations in animals . These changes are first observed in animals that have a lot of range , foxes , dogs , cats , because it was the place where depleted uranium ammunition thrown into large quantities , said Ajdačić . He pointed out that most of the ammunition was dumped on Iraq and the research that has been conducted later showed that the offspring of American soldiers who were in Iraq in 67 percent of cases have a genetic deformity . Harmful effects of depleted uranium have not felt only the citizens of Serbia , but also the foreign soldiers who participated in peacekeeping missions in Kosovo . Prosecution in Italy has recently launched an investigation because of the growing number of cancer patients after participation in peacekeeping missions, including Kosovo . Italian soldiers for years unsuccessfully trying to prove a connection between their poor health and depleted uranium . According to the Association of victims of depleted uranium , more than 300 soldiers , who were members of NATO troops died of various types of tumors , predominantly the lymph nodes , and more than 3,600 sickened . However , it is assumed that the number of cases is much higher because the disease does not occur immediately , and in various peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo , Iraq, Afghanistan, there were more than 70,000 Italian soldiers . Photo: twobee / freedigitalphotos.net
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