For two months, 180 new cases of cancer in Kosovo

Oncology Clinic Director Ilir Kurtishi, in an interview with the newspaper Blic, has discussed increasing cancer cases.

He says over 2100 cases of cancer have been recorded in the past year alone.

“Vitin 2023 we have recorded over 2100 new cases of solid tumors, with breast cancer dominance, we have recorded 463 females with breast cancer and 5 males, after breast cancer dominated men's lung cancer “, he said.

Kurtish said 180 new cancer cases have been recorded in just two months.

This year's “is a high trend of these mayhem growth, we have 180 new cases with solid tumors. Malije diseases usually date back to the ages of more than 50-60 years”, he said.

The director of Oncology states that 90% of the drugs on the essential list are at the clinic.

“Mby 90% of the drugs on the escial list we have in clinically, only 6.7 products that don't have marketing authorization”, he said.

He has talked away, and the factors affecting this disease.

“The factors affecting the appearance of this disease are internal factors and external factors, internal factors are genetics, age and gender, external pagers are, exposure of sunlight, inadequate food, various viral and bacterial infections”, he told Blic newspaper.