2023-09-22 08:46:32
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ICRPSE: yes, citizens have weapons
This is a report by Marie Roy to discover in issue 872 of L’Humanité magazine (September 21 to 27). In the Story of the Week section, she recounts the creation of a health institute. One more ? Not quite. Because it is not yet another government agency, but a citizen initiative. The Citizen Institute for Research and Prevention in Environmental Health (ICRPSE) was created by the Stop our children’s cancers collective. What is it regarding ? From parents who wondered why, between 2015 and 2021, in an area as large as a pocket handkerchief (a radius of 15 km around Sainte-Pazanne, 28 km from Nantes to be precise), 25 children were able to declare cancers (and 7 died). The journalist relays the testimony of the founder of the collective, Marie Thibaud, who discovered at the end of 2015 that her child had leukemia. But at the Nantes University Hospital where his son is being treated, it is also one of his school friends who is admitted to pediatric oncology, then another child from Saint-Mars-de-Coutais, a few kilometers from Sainte-Pazanne, then a fourth, who comes from the country of Retz, in the same area.
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In four months, four other children from the same area were hospitalized. It didn’t take much for Marie Thibaud to decide to make a report to the Regional Health Agency (ARS), while receiving calls from parents informing her of the cancer affecting their child. Successive reports remain a dead letter. It takes two years for the ARS to appear in 2018. The leukemia rate is abnormally high. The cluster is recognized. The documents do not exclude environmental factors “ as a cause of childhood cancers in the sector “, among which ” exposure to soils polluted with hydrocarbons, benzene linked to industrial discharges and road traffic, exposure to radon and pesticides ».
But as more children report cancers, agencies stop investigating. So Marie Thibaud founded her collective. The story of the fight to have investigations carried out by health agencies is edifying. Just like the conclusion of Public Health France (SPF) in 2020. It was enough to change the counting dates (set between 2005 and 2018) to exclude children who had cancer following these dates and conclude that the cluster has disappeared. The cluster perhaps, but not the desire of the collective to understand and above all to act, by creating nothing less than a health institute to which we give all our support.
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