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The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population announced that Egypt has joined the group of member states of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), becoming the 29th country participating in the agency, as a culmination of the Egyptian state’s efforts to promote cancer research and prevention efforts over the past years.
In this article, et reviews all details of the second phase of early detection of tumors initiative that was launched in Egypt on Wednesday.
The ministry explained that the initiative aims to detect the disease in the early stages, thus reducing deaths resulting from it, and reducing the financial burden in late cases.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population said that cervical cancer is one of the most difficult cancers affecting women, with a mortality rate of 63 percent.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population revealed a map of the treatment of cancerous tumors for adults and children, stressing that early detection contributes to the rapid treatment of the disease.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population confirmed that the rate of detection of tumors in the early stages increased to 70.5 percent.
After a long wait for around 15 years, Egypt’s Kafr el-Sheikh governorate, in Delta, will inaugurate soon its first oncology center that is aimed to end the suffering of thousands of patients in the governorate, and neighboring governorates.
The health insurance hospital of Beni Suef, Upper Egypt, has performed a rare surgery to remove a 25-kilogram tumor from a woman’s uterus.
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