CONTRACEPTIVES KEY REASON OF GROWING CANCER RATE AMONG ARMENIAN WOMEN

YEREVAN, MAY 27. ARMINFO. Widely applied in Armenia nowadays
contraceptives are the key reason of the growing cancer rate among
Armenian women, Director of National Oncological Center of Armenia’s
Health Care Ministry, Professor Hayrapet Galstyan said at today’s
round table discussion on oncology organized on the initiative of
first lady of Armenia Bella Kocharyan.

48.7% of 6,174 cancer cases in 2004 were women against 46.2% of 4,705
cases in 1995 – a 833-time growth in a decade. 876 women proved to
have breast cancer in 2004 against 619 in 1995. Timely and regular
prophylactics is a good way to avoid cancer. Women of 20-30 should
undergo mammography once in 2-3 years, 40-year-old women once a year.

Bella Kocharyan said that the government should do its best to
preseerve women’s health – for a state is based on a family while a
family is based on a woman and her health. “Everybody knows that
Armenian women care for their husbands and children more than for
their own selves,” she said noting that the Armenian woman should
realize what important a role she plays in society and start paying
more attention to her health.