Cancer patients increase alarmingly; treatment costs Rs1mn per patient
By Sriyani Wijesinghe
The Ministry of Health points out that the number of persons afflicted with cancer has doubled in the past three decades.
Health Ministry sources say that statistics collated in 1985 revealed that for every 100,000 persons, 36 were deemed to be cancer patients. The latest figure reveals that for the same number of persons, currently 70 persons are affected by cancer.