Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 14 / Trend, T. Jafarov, S. Isayev
Due to high volume of traffic and air pollution, cancer is developing in Iran, Hossein Himmeti, an official within Iran's Ministry of Healthcare and Medical education said, Mehr news agency reported.
He noted that oncology diseases have increased, in Tehran in particular, and most money are spent on treatment of these diseases.
Himmeti also said that in city hospitals patient rooms are full of cancer patients.
Iranian media outlets claim that cancer is the third top reason for deaths in Iran - as every day about 105 people in the country die of cancer.
Official statistics in Iran say there are about 63,000 cases of cancer revealed in the country annually.
However, according to the Iranian media, the real number of cancer patients is 90,000-95,000, with over 50,000-55,000 fatalities.
Head of Cancer Research Center of Tehran University, Mohammad Ali Mohaqqiqi said in May that stomach cancer is the most common reason of people dying in Iran.
He noted that every year in Iran about 200 people get infected with cancer, adding that of every 100,000 people in Iran annually about 200 are revealed to have cancer.
In 2012, Dr. Parviz Daryaei in Iran said that breast cancer is the third leading cause of death among Iranian women and 25,000 to 30,000 new cases are reported every year, noting at the time that only colon and rectal cancers kill more women.