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    BREAST CANCER IS IN FIRST PLACE

    http://a1plus.am/en/social/2010/07/8/cancer
    06:18 pm | Today | Social

    Breast cancer is on the rise among women's illnesses, said today Head
    of Armenian-American Health Center Khachanush Hakobyan.

    Hakobyan reminded that the best way of avoiding breast cancer
    is prevention. "Women can prevent breast cancer by visiting their
    doctors once a year. Like other cancers, breast cancer can be treated
    to extend a woman's lifetime, if the disease is in the first stage,"
    says Khachanush Hakobyan.

    The late stage is when the woman feels a lump on her breast.

    In the course of 13 years, the center has conducted 196,000 studies
    showing 6,000 people with late cancer and 2,000 with cancer in the
    early developmental stage.

    "This goes to show that breast cancer is rather widespread, but it
    is unacceptable to say it is the top illness in Armenia because we
    haven't noticed such changes among people with cancer this year,"
    says the Head of the Armenian-American Health Center.

    The center has diagnosed 11 men with breast cancer and 4 of them
    have died.

    According to Khachanush Hakobyan, the center conducts studies through
    state-of-the-art equipment and there is a lower risk of radiation
    during mammography. Mammographic and ultra-sound studies cost 11,000
    drams altogether and Khachanush Hakobyan doesn't think that women
    can't save up 11,000 drams a year for their health.

    According to Hakobyan, the first reason for the emergence of cancer
    is inheritance, then come stress and an unhealthy lifestyle.

    "We can't talk about a healthy lifestyle, clean air or staying far
    from telephones, the Internet and the television set, but they do
    have small rays," said Hakobyan.

    According to the center's statistics, breast cancer is most widespread
    in Gegharkunik province.




    From: A. Papazian
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