Over 300 new cancer cases in two months, more than past years

Periskopi

30 March 2024, 09:49(2 years ago)

320 new cancer cases have been recorded during January and February of this year in Kosovo, Oncology Director Ilir Kurtishi has announced. He has said that compared to the same period last year, the number of cases has increased by over 10 percent. Until breast cancer continues [...]

320 new cancer cases have been recorded during January and February of this year in Kosovo, Oncology Director Ilir Kurtishi has announced.

He has said that compared to the same period last year, the number of cases has increased by over 10 percent. As breast cancer continues to dominate women, there is a lung in men.

Kurtishi has announced that the number of new cancer cases is on the rise, until she added that it is expected that the renovations of this clinic will be completed by early May.

“Viti 2024 in January-February at the Oncology Clinic have registered 320 patients with various types of cancer, dominates again like last year with breast cancer, and is a greater number than the previous years, and the same men dominate lung cancer, and immediately behind these two groups are colon tumors and malignant tumors of female gender organs. Age still dominates over 50 years, so the number of patients is over 50 years old, what is problematic in Kosovo and continues to remain is that we have cases under the age of 50 where the disease is of advanced stages, and when patients are reported late to receive the treatment of”, Kurtishi stressed on the Online Economy.

He has indicated that at the beginning of May, it is expected to complete works at the Oncology Clinic, saying there will be capacity expansion, including doubling the number of beds.

“According to officials, he's about to complete his jobs in the record term, faster terms than planned and clinics according to the MSH and SKKKUK, so according to project leaders he'll be ready at the beginning of May and we're in clinic supply procedures or inventor equipment or other service parts, and I think as soon as these components of the clinic or inventar are brought in, it's going to be a very good clinic clinic clinic with new spaces and we've doubled the clinic capacity of 45, so we're going to have 100 patients with 24 hours on and that's going to be a lot easier to do the clinic, but the patients in the same time for the same time.