Oncologist: “Decrease has been registered in the age of cancer patients” (video)
Does Armenia rank the first with the number of deaths from cancer? The Ministry of Health refuses to comment on the rankings, which was drawn based on the data of the World Health Organization. According to it annually 229 people die of cancer in Armenia per 100,000 population. The Ministry of Health, though, hasn’t released any data since 2012. “There are numbers which correspond to the statistics and there are the ones, which don’t,” said Alexander Bazarchyan, Director of the National Institute of Health of Armenia. Mr. Bazarchyan, nevertheless, doesn’t reject- the rate of deaths from cancer is high in our country. “Of course, it would be better if it was lower,” he noted. Oncologist Nerses Berberyan also has difficulty in saying to what extent those statistics are reliable. But it is a fact that year by year the oncologic diseases are increasing. “And the worse thing is that decrease has been registered in the age of cancer patients,” he noted. The doctor thinks that more often the ineffective treatment of the people is connected with financial problems. “If a patient is insolvent, he won’t be able to do it. And if he isn’t able, we will not have good results. Chemotherapy is rather expensive medication, we have such a medication for some patients, which costs 1 million drams,” highlighted Mr. Berberyan. Details on video
