A former surgeon at Urumqi Railway Central Hospital has alleged that unusually high cancer rates in Xinjiang may be linked to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) nuclear testing program. According to the account, while serving in the hospital’s oncology surgery department, the physician observed that ethnic minority patients occupied a disproportionately large share of oncology beds: 10 beds for 5,000 Xinjiang’s minority ethnicities vs. 30 beds for 154,000 han ethnicities.
The physician claims a review identified leukemia, lung cancer, and lymphoma as the three most prevalent malignancies among the hospital’s oncology patients, noting that all three have been associated in scientific literature with exposure to ionizing radiation. The account further alleges that a previous cancer survey of railway employees and their families found cancer incidence in Xinjiang to be approximately 35 percent higher than in other parts of China, although the survey’s findings were reportedly never released publicly.
The account also contends that official statistics significantly underestimate Xinjiang’s cancer burden because many rural residents and herders lack access to specialized oncology care. As additional supporting evidence, the physician contrasts the capacity of Xinjiang’s provincial cancer hospital—approximately 2,000 beds serving a population of 20 million—with that of Henan Province’s cancer hospital, which had only 800 beds despite serving a population of roughly 100 million.
Source: Aboluo, June 22, 2026
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