A surgery on a colorectal cancer patient in
Vietnam
The World
Health Organisation (WHO) has continued ranking Vietnam among the countries
with the highest rate of cancer fatalities, said Nguyen Chan Hung, chairman of
Vietnam Cancer Association.
Hung
released the information at a national conference on cancer in Hanoi on October
6.
According
to Hung, Vietnam along with Finland, Somalia and Turkmenistan stood 78th among
172 countries with a cancer death rate of 110 for every 100,000 people.
Cancer
patient numbers in Vietnam have been on the rise with the figure forecast to
reach 190,000 cases in 2020 compared to just 68,000 in 2000 and 126,000 in
2010.
Every
year, around 115,000 people in Vietnam die of cancer, equal to 315 people per
day.
Lung, liver,
stomach, rectum and breast cancer were the biggest killers.
According
to Dr. Tran Van Thuan, Director of K Hospital in Hanoi, up to 85% of lung
cancer patients are related to smoking.
Thuan
added that most cancer patients come to hospital quite late, so, treatment was
often ineffective and costly, resulting in a high death rate.
The rate
of patients who recover from cancer treatment in Vietnam is roughly between 30%
and 40%, against 70%-80% in many developed countries.
A report
of the Ministry of Health indicated that total cost for breast, lung, rectum,
stomach, liver and cervical cancers in Vietnam reached VND25.78 trillion
(USD1.2 billion) in 2012, accounting for 0.22% of annual GDP.
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