Chemical in home renovations linked to child leukaemia, lymphoma cases in China; more than 70 per cent come from homes recently renovated, doctor says

There are two to three children to a room in the childrens oncology ward at Sichuan Provincial Peoples Hospital. The place is scattered with toys and the laughter of the young patients, some of them bald from chemotherapy, can be heard along with the din from a TV.Forty children are patients in the ward, and of these, 90 per cent are suffering from leukaemia or lymphoma blood cancers, says Zhou Chenyan, deputy director of the hospitals paediatrics department.The treatment for both conditions