140,000 DIE FROM CANCER ANNUALLY IN TURKEY
Tert.am
14:51 ~U 04.02.10
About 140,000 people die from cancer in Turkey every year, said state
doctor and professor Murat Tuncer, head of the Department of the Fight
Against Cancer at the Turkish Ministry of Healthcare, in a interview
with Turkish NTV TV channel said
According to Tuncer, in Turkey, in the next 20 years, cancer deaths can
be as much as 500,000 individuals each year. The professor forecasts
the number of cancer cases to be 150,000 each year, even rising to
a total number of 1.5 million annually.
Currently there are 396,000 people diagnosed with cancer in Turkey,
Tuncer said.
Among women, it is breast cancer that is more widespread, while among
men, it’s lung cancer.