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Rate of increase of cancer in Bulgaria ‘alarming’

Thu, Feb 04 2010 17:42 CET

byThe Sofia Echo Staff

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Rate of increase of cancer in Bulgaria ‘alarming’

A radiologist examines breast X-rays after a cancer prevention medical check-up at the Ambroise Pare hospital in Marseille, southern France, on April 3 2008.


The number of cancer patients in Bulgaria has increased by two per cent in a year, according to statistics released in Sofia on February 4 2010, the World Day Against Cancer.
 
Doctor Zdravka Valerianova, director of the National Specialist Oncology Hospital, said that in 2008, there had been 34 000 new cancer patients, and that year, 17 000 people in Bulgaria died of cancer.
 
Currently, 223 000 people in the country had malignant cancers.
 
When you know what the risk factors for cancer are, you can help yourself and reduce the risk considerably, Professor Stefka Petrova, director of the National Public Health Protection Centre, said in an interview with Bulgarian news agency Focus.
 
Noting that the theme of this year’s Day Against Cancer was that cancer can be prevented, she said that prevention depended on the location of the various types of cancer, with chances of prevention from 10 per cent to 90 per cent "depending on whether you are exposed to risk factors in your style of living and environment," she said.
 
The risk factors were smoking, lack of exercise, obesity, unhealthy diet, and excessive exposure to sun or ultraviolet light, according to Petrova.

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