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Data released Sunday by the Israeli Cancer Association and the Israeli Ministry of Health showed a reduction in cancer mortality in Israel, with a significant reduction in the number of new cancer cases, while data was published jointly with World Cancer Day 4 February each year), an increase in new cases of injury among Arab women.
According to the data, in 2016, 27,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in Israel, including 10,666 cases among men (47% of total infections), while the number of new infections among women reached 14,380 (53%). %). , Bringing the total number of cancerous tumors infected to 90,000 and 661 patients, including 39,000 and 971 men, and 50,000 and 690 women.
The most common tumors in Arab men were lungs (21.7%), colon (13.2%), prostate (9.1%), bladder (5.1%) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (5%); (34.5%), the colon (9.1%), the glands (7.7%), the uterus (5.7%) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (5.1%).
The data indicate that the cancer rate among Arab men is 210.1 per 100,000, while the rate among Arab women is 200.8 per 100,000; in 1990, according to official data, it was 150.7 cases per 100,000 people and among Arab women, 105.6 cases per 100,000 women.
The initial weighting suggests that the rate of new infections among Arab women is probably due to positive factors, namely an increased awareness of the need for early diagnosis and testing to reveal the disease to its patients. debut.
According to the data, in 2016, 11,77 people died of cancer in Israel: 5,580 men (50.3%) and 497.5% women (49.6%).
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