Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Russian government officials say the number of certain child and teenage cancer patients dying in St. Petersburg -- which has a population of 5.3 million -- has increased by nearly 700 percent over the past decade.
Scientists said in a report cancer rates soared 679 percent among child patients between 10 and 14 years old, between 2008 and 2017. Cancer-related deaths among children between 15 and 19 climbed by 200 percent, and those between 5 and 9 16 percent.