In Saint-Pazanne, in Loire-Atlantique, a 4-year-old child suffers from cancer, announces the collective “Stop the cancers of our children” which is launching an appeal.
This Wednesday, September 16, the group "Stop the cancers of our children" launched an appeal to the President of the Republic, after a child was touched by cancer in the Saint-Pazanne sector in the Pays de Retz. Since 2015, 22 children have been diagnosed with cancer in Sainte-Pazanne and its surroundings. Among them, five children died.
A concentration of cases that worries the collective and families. "We call on President Emmanuel Macron to protect the health of our children", declared Marie Thibaud, founder of the collective, "children continue to fall ill, things have to move", says Mari Thibaud.
"Not six months go by without a child declaring cancer around us"
An increase in cases twice the national average, according to figures from the Regional Health Agency (ARS), which counted 11 cases in this sector between 2015 and March 2019. "This difference is explained by the age and the geographic area used", specifies Marie Thibaud, mother of a little boy in remission, who quickly alerted the authorities to this multiplication of cases in this area. "Not six months go by without a child declaring cancer around us", she confided.
The collective also denounces the establishment of seven wind turbines in a neighboring town. The first would have been put into service shortly before 2015, the year in which these first cases of pediatric cancer occurred.
Despite the epidemiological investigation by Public Health France and several other investigations carried out by the ARS, the group has not yet succeeded in determining the “Common cause” to these diseases.