Sunday, February 11, 2007

Health in the news: 75,000 new annual cancer cases in Iran

Dr Mohagheghi, the chief of Tehran University Institute of Cancer, said that 200,000 patients with cancer live in the currently and each year 75,000 new cases are diagnosed as having a type of cancer. 30,000 cancer patients die in Iran each year he added.
Source: www.aftabeyazd.com , No: 2005, Feb, 10 2007
Code: 24N

2 comments:

soufia said...

hi...i'm doing a project on Iran and i'm writing on iran's peaceful use of nuclear technology.i'm looking on statistics concerning the approx number of cancer patients in iran that could be cure through radiotherapy...i'd really appreciate it if you could help.

saeid shahraz said...

You can get all these numbers from the center for non communicable disease in Iran (markaz bimarihaye gheire vagir). I hope this helps.