Dzunuzova Gulsum (43) has a brain tumor and lives in the region of the Semipalinsk test site and undergoes treatment in the Semipalatinsk hospital. She holds a scan that revelas the tumor in her brain. She has also lived near the Chinese border in the region where the Chinese had their atomic test site. She doesn't know which of the tests caused her disease. Nuclear tests in Semipalatinsk caused wide spread radioactive contamination in Kazakhstan. Around 1.7 million people have been used as guinea pigs by the military and been severely affected by radiation. The rates of cancers, leukemia, cardio vascular diseases, bone diseases and children born with physical or mental handicaps have increased dramatically since the testing started. In 1999, UNDP declared the region a disaster zone and called for wide spread support for the people living there.