Updated: 12-06-2025
Heart-Touching True Story on Cancer
7.30 P.M. Madhapur Railway Station
All the passengers arriving on the platform were waiting for a train.
Pooja Mishra, 45, was sitting near a platform tree, engaged in her thoughts, while her son Priyansh and sister-in-law Kumari were sitting next to her, watching the chaos there.
A little distance away, Jaiprabha, 32, bundled in a blanket, sleeps peacefully while her brother and his wife discuss their son’s schooling.
And many more people can be seen there, going and coming, helping their friends climb up the platform stairs.
The whole group of people waiting on that platform for that train to Sone were not friends or families; rather, they couldn’t even be called strangers.
It was Cancer that developed a bond with them. They were all waiting for the cancer train.
“The disease certainly leaves its ghastly mark,” thought the old man who had been selling biscuits for nearly 5 years in the station.
The stationmaster arrived on the platform there, telling all of the cancer patients to claim their concessions offered by the railway department: “Free for the patient and 75% for the attendant,” he said.
9.30 P.M., Gamjal—Ichoda Passenger Train:
Everyone immediately settled down, helping each other in the reserved and unreserved coaches of the train.
After some time, the whole train was filled with the delicious smell of buttered rotis and different kinds of stews, and everyone started conversations about cancer.
This was the only thing they could think of about their life.
They were also discussing the expensive medicines in Madhapur and how they have to go to Soner to get the free medicines.
Jaiprabha started telling about her discovery of cancer; she was a leukemia patient.
“At first, I thought it was a common flu that took away my strength, but when my husband took me to Ludhiana for the test, I found out that I had cancer.”
She continued telling how she had to fight herself to survive this, as her 5-year-old son waited for her at home.
Pooja continued with her story, “When I got the news of my breast cancer, it was like the whole mountain came crashing down on me.
It took days for me to get over the shock. It was after that that we decided to come sooner for treatment.
It was free here. “Every penny counts,” she concluded.
At least 40 patients from the state arrive at Soner for cancer treatment every day.
5.30 A.M. Soner Railway Station:
Arriving at their destination, everyone headed to freshen themselves up.
They also started looking out for the auto drivers, calling out the doctor’s name.
Pooja goes with Rinku, who has been regularly driving her to the doctor’s home.
Many others were already there.
Why Is That Train Occupied with Cancer Patients?
The widespread use of pesticides has contaminated the soil, groundwater, air, and even food.
Also, sometimes farmers use pesticides without they do not need.
Harmful effects of pesticides:
The main purpose of pesticides is to kill, and since the action is not confined to any one of the species, they play a more and a very important role in killing or harming organisms like animals and humans.
The World Health Organisation recently estimated that there are 3 million such cases where pesticide poisoning occurs every year, and approximately 220,000 deaths.
There are very harmful effects of pesticides on humans. Pesticide health effects include
- Less visual ability
- Altered mood
- Reduced motor skills
- Loss of memory
- Problems with reproduction and fetal development
- Asthma
- Allergies
- Hypersensitivity, etc.
But out of all this is a very major and specific disease: cancer.
Not only do pesticides have hazardous effects on human beings, but they also play an important role in affecting and disturbing the fruits and vegetables grown in an area.
Yes, there are certain very harmful effects of pesticides on fruits and vegetables.
“In olden days, farmers used to rely on organic and authentic stuffs to yield all types of fruits and vegetables.
But as the days are passing by, organic stuffs are replaced by chemical stuffs.”
Producing high yields in a short duration became the norm for all types of cultivation, and this is where the chemicals started to take a toll on both the land and the people’s health, especially children, who are very much vulnerable to such chemical exposure.
Therefore, it is always better to feed your family with fruits and vegetables that are way better organically grown.
Having talked about these issues, do you think that the pesticides won’t be a bother for our environment? Yes, it is absolute! Researchers haound out that there are obviously too many harmful effects of pesticides on the environment.
Well, everybody knows that pesticides are designed to be released into the environment.
But although it possesses the capability to kill certain pests, the main problem occurs when the pesticides enter other destinations like air, water, and sediments, and also our foods, rather than entering and killing their targets.
Pesticides are also a threat to our animals, birds, and aquatic life.
Now that we know that pesticides leave their hazardous impacts on birds, animals, foods, fruits, vegetables, and essentially human beings, causing them a huge amount of cancer-causing viruses, let’s see how pesticides can affect cancer.
Pesticides cause several types of cancer in human beings. Some of them include
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Brain cancer
- Bone cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Testicular
- Liver cancer
It has been studied that children whose parents use pesticides are more likely to have brain cancers when compared to those children who live in areas where pesticides are not used.
The examples of pesticides that possess these disrupting chemicals are carbonyl, parathion, atrazine, lindane, and many others.
If these chemicals are present in large quantities, they are twice as likely to develop cancer.
However, everything has certain precautions. And some of the precautions to be maintained to avoid cancer due to pesticides are to have much less intake of food having pesticides and to take necessary actions to keep yourself and your children away from pesticide exposure, such as wearing long shirts and pants, wearing glasses, rubber boots, and gloves etc.
And yes, one of the main things that can’t be avoided mentioning is the birth defects due to pesticides.
Some years ago, it was studied that 3 women working in a company where tomatoes are produced using some type of chemicals gave birth to 3 babies with a lot of birth defects.
Thus, the coincidence, when considered and researched, exposed the results that it is caused by the connection with pesticides.
Evidence has also been found recently that pesticides disturb the endocrine system of human beings, which ultimately disturbs the regulation of hormones, also disturbing the reproductive system and embryonic development.
The disturbance in the endocrine system leads to infertility and many birth defects and developmental defects, which also include defects in offspring, such as hormonal imbalance, impaired brain development, and incomplete sexual development.
In fact, according to research conducted by Harvard University, it was found that men who ate a large number of fruits and vegetables with a high amount of pesticides had a 49% lower sperm count when compared to those men who consumed fewer pesticide products.
Although many of the researchers have said the opposite of this statement, the majority are of the view that the pesticides certainly reduce the sperm count.
Therefore, it has been suggested that only fruits and vegetables with low levels of pesticides should be consumed to lead a healthy life.
Not only does it affect male fertility, but it is also related to the majority of abortion cases in females.
Earlier, it was studied that a high level of exposure to pesticides always leads to miscarriage and abortion in rats and mice.
But only when the research was conducted on women, and especially pregnant women, did it come out that the more they work in the pesticide environment, the greater the chance of abortion, and the risk is even higher when they are very much nearer (approximately 1 mile) to the pesticide exposure.
The only possible solution to this is to keep away from pesticides as much as possible to avoid this kind of problem and many other birth defects related to it.
Another problem related to birth defects caused by high pesticide exposure is the increasing problem of premature deliveries.
Studies show that pesticides increase the risk of premature deliveries by 60%.
The figure has increased significantly by now.
Just imagine if the blood of a mother continuously pumps toxins into the body of her child; it’s going to affect the child in its womb and, after many years, too, in a negative way.
Certainly, to have a healthy baby, you need to have a healthy diet and food intake, absolutely free of pesticides.
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