The sobering statistics were released at the seventh national scientific tumor seminar in Can Tho City on October 25. Themed “Female Cancer Prevention”, it attracted more than 300 professors and doctors from oncology hospitals and centres throughout the country.
Doctors used the seminar to share cancer prevention and control experiences and update themselves with the latest information about cancer analysis, detection, and treatment, and the current state of national cancer prevention and control programmes.
The seminar summarized recent research and treatment achievements that will help raise the rates of treatment success via earlier diagnoses.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), worldwide cancer sufferers totaled 22.4 million in 2010 and could climb to 300 million in the next 25 years. As many as 200 million patients may die from the disease, mostly in developing countries.
Vietnam’s anti-cancer efforts suffer from dire qualified doctor and medical infrastructure shortages, causing cancer hospital overload.
The biennial seminar was created to collect cancer prevention experience and collate the shared knowledge in a manner that can improve the effectiveness of future national anti-cancer programmes.
