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Iran: The cancer treatment costs $804 million in Iran

2014/02/07

The cancer treatment costs $804 million (based on official rate of 24,874 rials per each USD) for Iran each year, chief of the National Congress on Comprehensive Cancer Control Program Abbas Pour Nesari said, Iranian Mehr news agency reported on February 7.

Nesari said $804 million is for the treatment of cancer, while indirect costs reach to $2.41 billion, annually.

Cancer is the third health problem in Iran, he said, adding that cancer statistics in Iran is lower than world cancer cases statistics.

Iranian media outlets claim that cancer is the third top reason for deaths in Iran, as each day about 105 people in the country die of cancer.

Some 41,000 people died in Iran due to cancer during the last Iranian schedule time(ended on March 21, 2013), and annually about 85,000 people catch cancer in the country, according to the chief of Cancer Research Center in Iran, Mohammad Ismayil Akbari.

Official statistics in Iran say there are about 63,000 cases of cancer revealed in the country annually.

However, according to the Iranian media, the real number of cancer patients is 90,000-95,000, with over 50,000-55,000 fatalities.

In 2012, Dr. Parviz Daryaei in Iran said that breast cancer is the third leading cause of death part Iranian women and 25,000 to 30,000 new cases are reported each year, noting at the time that only colon and rectal cancers kill additional women.

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