Moreover as soon as such a cure were discovered, Turkish medicine would make it available to sick people here immediately. Turkish Cancer Society Chairman, Professor Ergun Goney, has said that the way to be saved from cancer in Turkey is through early diagnosis and treatment because the country has yet to set up centers which can deal with advanced cancer, unlike in the West. Of these 67 per cent of men die and 60 per cent of women, in other words, only some 40 per cent of all victims are expected to survive. Cancer related deaths around the world total some five million annually. The same source reports that there are five million more people with cancer around the world every year.
Emphasis is to be given to early breast, cervical and skin cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The organization plans to encourage the establishment of centers which would be integrated with government hospitals. Goney emphasized in a press conference yesterday that in Turkey 200,000 people are estimated to have developed cancer each year. According to Ministry of Health figures, victims living in the Marmara region of Turkey, or 53 per cent of the country's total population, have a better chance of advanced treatment in comparison with the rest of the country. However, again according to the figures, those living on or near the Marmara also have a far higher propensity for developing cancer. The total is seven to eight times greater in comparison with the numbers of deaths caused by traffic accidents in Turkey.