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    CANCER RATE IN ARMENIA DOUBLED OVER LAST TWO DECADES

    YEREVAN, January 30. /ARKA/. Cancer rate in Armenia has doubled over
    the last two decades, Professor Gagik Bazikyan, the deputy director
    of Armenian National Oncology Center, said today at a news conference
    in Novosti International Press Center.

    He said that 3,500 to 4,000 people were diagnosed with cancer every
    year in Armenia before 1990.

    "In 2011 we registered 7,858 cancer patients and in 2012 we had 7,900
    new cancer patients," he said.

    Bazikyan said that malignant tumors took 5,595 lives in 2011 and more
    than 6,000 in 2012.

    "Death rate is rising slower than diagnosed cancer rate, since all
    the kinds of treatment, such as surgery, X-ray therapy and chemical
    therapy, are used to save patients," he said.

    Bazikyan said that targeting chemical therapy is used more frequently
    today.

    "Today the government pays bills for chemical therapy, but can't afford
    to subsidize expensive medicaments," he said adding that those cancer
    patients who can afford medicaments which cost ~@2,000 to ~@3,000
    buy them, and low-income people may rely on partial financing by the
    government. -0-



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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