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A secret group is behind a number of shocking animal abuse videos that have recently been circulating online in China, according to an Internet post by someone claiming to be an insider.
The message, posted on tianya.com, said an organized group in China hires girls to abuse small animals and then sells the videos abroad.
The girls would receive at least 6,000 yuan($903) each time to shoot the videos, the post said. The poster claimed to be an insider who had been in the group for half a year.
The claim follows a particularly brutal four-minute video that appeared nine days ago on mop.com, in which a girl placed a thick piece of glass on top of a rabbit and sat on it, crushing the animal to death. On the ground were two other dead rabbits.
The video drew over 500,000 hits that day and enraged netizens, who quickly began a human flesh search and discovered where the girl lived, her surname, her MSN account and QQ number, the Chongqing Business Daily reported.
Under huge pressure, the girl apologized on her QQ space Saturday, saying she regretted what she had done. In another post written the next day, she said that the decision to kill the rabbit had been her own.
However, the insider claimed that her actions had been organized by a group named Crushfetish, and previous videos on the Internet showing a middle-aged woman abusing a cat, a dog and a rabbit had also been produced by the group.
The insider said that the members of this group contacted each other through QQ and had their own website, which contained several pictures and videos of animal abuse. The insider claimed the website was only open for a few hours each night, and offered girls money to appear in the videos.
"There is still no law in China to protect ordinary animals and we can only condemn those sadists on a moral level," Duan Qin, a lawyer at the Chongqing Lida Law Office said, adding that the frequency of animal abuse incidents had made more people realize the urgency in drawing up relevant laws.
September 11th 2010 02:38
Patients with colon cancer who used multivitamins during and after being treated with post-surgical chemotherapy did not reduce the risk of the cancer returning or their dying from it, according to researchers at Maryland-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
In a study of patients with stage III colon cancer -- characterized as cancer in the large bowel area with some cancer cells in a few nearby lymph nodes -- the researchers found that while multivitamin use had no beneficial effect on patients' outcomes, it also did not have a detrimental effect.
The findings were reported online on Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and later will be published in a print edition.
Kimmie Ng, the paper's first author and a gastrointestinal oncologist at Dana-Farber, said that despite conflicting evidence on the efficacy of multivitamins to reduce cancer risk and death, studies suggest that approximately 30 percent of Americans take multivitamins to prevent and treat chronic diseases such as cancer. Among cancer survivors, between 26 and 77 percent report using multivitamins.
"With such a high proportion of cancer patients utilizing multivitamin supplements in the belief that it will help them fight their cancer, we felt it was important to really examine the data to see what impact multivitamins had on cancer recurrence and survival," said Ng.
The researchers used two questionnaires to track multivitamin use during and after chemotherapy. Of the 1,038 patients who completed the first survey, nearly half (518) responded they used multivitamins while receiving chemotherapy. Of the 810 cancer-free patients who completed the second survey six months after chemotherapy, more than half (416) reported multivitamin use.
Ng and her colleagues found no statistically significant differences in the rates of disease-free survival (the study's primary endpoint), recurrence-free survival, or overall survival between those who used multivitamins and those who didn't.
They also determined that an array of factors, including socioeconomic status, household income, multivitamin and individual vitamin dosage, and consistency of multivitamin use, did not impact their findings.
However, they did find a small beneficial association between age and weight and the use of multivitamins while receiving chemotherapy. Those 60 and younger experienced some survival benefit, as did obese patients. There were no benefits for either subgroup when the multivitamins were taken after chemotherapy was completed.
Ng said additional studies are needed to confirm their findings and to investigate whether there were other factors that influenced the outcomes.
September 11th 2010 02:37
Patients with colon cancer who used multivitamins during and after being treated with post-surgical chemotherapy did not reduce the risk of the cancer returning or their dying from it, according to researchers at Maryland-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
In a study of patients with stage III colon cancer -- characterized as cancer in the large bowel area with some cancer cells in a few nearby lymph nodes -- the researchers found that while multivitamin use had no beneficial effect on patients' outcomes, it also did not have a detrimental effect
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