KABUL (Pajhwok): Around 23,000 people in Afghanistan suffer from cancer and 16000 patients died of the disease last year, Public Health Ministry officials said on Wednesday.
Addressing a gathering marking World Cancer Day in Kabul, MoPH services deputy director Habibullah Akhunzada said no new survey had been conducted to know the exact number of cancer patients in the country, but a World Health Organization survey last year showed there were 23,000 cancer patients in Afghanistan.
He said the patients included 10,000 men and 13,000 women and 16,000 people died of the disease in 2022.
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