Governor inaugurates Scientific conference on cancers in Mukalla
The Source: MUKALLA/hadharamaut.info - 05/02/2011
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Third International Conference on Cancer Started today in Mukalla city.
Its being organized by Hadhramaut Health Foundation and Hadhramaut
Society for Cancer Control in collaboration with the World Health
Organization.The Conference will run for four days and its Agenda are about cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, address national and international statistics and registries on cancer as well as the international programs to control the disease also early detection of cancer and its relationship to nutrition.
Hadhramout Governor, Salem Ahmed Al-Khanbashi blessed the conference in Mukalla. He expressed his hope that this conference will play an active role in the dissemination of knowledge and education to curb the spread of the disease as well as to identify its causes and methods of prevention, emphasizing state and Government attention to fight this disease through the establishment of cancer centers in a number of provinces. Governor Al-kanbashi Khanbashi expressed his thanks and appreciation to His Excellency President Ali Abdullah Saleh for his support and encouragement for such conferences and to overcome all the obstacles and the care and interest his Excellency gives for the advancement of the domain of health and awareness and use of local expertise and regional and international organizations in this area.
WHO representative in our country Dr. . Ghulam Popal indicated that 30-40% of cancers can be treated and that the year 2008 recorded 12.7 million new cases of cancer. The same year also witnessed about 7.6 million deaths and he noted that it is expected that the in the year 2030 the number of people living with cancer in the world will reach 21.4 million infected and 13.2 million deaths. He also noted that cancer disease ranked fourth in the Middle East in terms of causes of death among young people and adults and comes directly after heart disease.
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