Secretary of the National Cancer Prevention and Control Committee:

Every year over 156 thousand cancer patients are diagnosed in Israel

🔹 The secretary of the National Cancer Prevention and Control Committee on the face of cancer and the financial burden caused by it in Israel, announced the annual detection of 156,467 new cases and emphasized the need to improve the national data ecosystem and reduce the time of diagnosis, especially in breast cancer.

According to Dr. Ali Mutalak, today, among all cancer patients, approximately 389,466 patients survive up to 5 years after diagnosis, and statistics show that on average, one out of every 10 cancer patients dies before reaching the age of 75.