Cancer most common death reason in Iran - researcher
Stomach cancer is the most common reason of people dying in
Iran, Head of Cancer Research Center of Tehran University Mohammad
Ali Mohaqqiqi said, Jamnews website reported.
He noted that every year in Iran about 200 people get infected with
cancer.
Mohaqqiqi said that stomach cancer is a chronic disease that
develops with people of elderly age.
Due to the fact that the population in Iran has been ageing, the
problem of stomach cancer was not as alarming as it is now.
"In every 100,000 people annually, 200 are revealed to have
cancer," Mohaqqiqi said, adding that of those 110 are men and 90
are women.
He also said that of those 90 women, 25 percent have mammary
cancer, while stomach cancer dominates among men.
Iran experiences difficulties in bringing necessary medicine in the
country, due to international sanctions, which do not directly
target food imports and medicine.
In 2012, Dr. Parviz Daryaei in Iran said that breast cancer is the
third leading cause of death among Iranian women and 25,000 to
30,000 new cases are reported every year, noting at the time that
only colon and rectal cancers kill more women.
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