The figure was announced on Friday by Mohammad Reza Sohrabi, who serves as deputy for hygiene at the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
Sohabi referred to government figures announced five years ago and said skin cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer and gastric prostate cancer are the most common types of cancers in Iran.
According to an IRNA report in mid-November, 2023, cancer was responsible for 34,000 of some 122,000 premature deaths reported for people under the age of 70. Cancer was the cause of 11,000 out of 85,000 premature deaths under the age of 50 last year.
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