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Cancer claims 15,000 lives annually in Afghanistan

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KABUL annually to cancer, a disease curable in initial stages.

Speaking at a gathering marking World Cancer Day, Feroz said World Health Organization (WHO)’s statistics showed around 20,000 Afghans contracted cancer each year, with a majority dying.

He said the deadly disease killed eight million people of the total 14 million infected on the global level.

The disease could be controlled by increased cooperation on measures that halted cancer from spreading, awareness about factors . . .

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