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Top Oncologist: Lung Cancer Tops List in Armenian Provinces with
Mining Operations
Sona Avagyan
http://hetq.am/eng/news/23377/top-oncologist-lung-cancer-tops-list-in-armenian-provinces-with-mining-operations.html
13:27, February 15, 2013
Armen Tananyan, Deputy Director of Armenia's National Oncology Center,
told reporters today that research shows that the leading form of
cancer in provinces where mining takes place is lung cancer.
Tananyan said these results are based on a recent cancer survey
carried out in Artsakh and throughout Armenia.
When asked by this reporter if there was a connection between the
breathing of factory exhausts and lung cancer, Tananyan said there was
a direct correlation and that smoking, stress and hereditary factors
also played a role.
The oncologist says that cancer rates in Armenia (240 out of 100,000
for first time patients) was in line with figures compiled by the
World Health Organization for Eastern Europe and former Soviet
countries.
Mining Operations
Sona Avagyan
http://hetq.am/eng/news/23377/top-oncologist-lung-cancer-tops-list-in-armenian-provinces-with-mining-operations.html
13:27, February 15, 2013
Armen Tananyan, Deputy Director of Armenia's National Oncology Center,
told reporters today that research shows that the leading form of
cancer in provinces where mining takes place is lung cancer.
Tananyan said these results are based on a recent cancer survey
carried out in Artsakh and throughout Armenia.
When asked by this reporter if there was a connection between the
breathing of factory exhausts and lung cancer, Tananyan said there was
a direct correlation and that smoking, stress and hereditary factors
also played a role.
The oncologist says that cancer rates in Armenia (240 out of 100,000
for first time patients) was in line with figures compiled by the
World Health Organization for Eastern Europe and former Soviet
countries.