The cancer that has been one of the second most frequent causes of death after the chest and cardiovascular diseases worldwide turned out to be an important public health problem. A proportion of increase referring to 70% is expected in cancer cases within the next twenty years subject to increase and aging in population. The Academic Member Dr. Nurten Elkin, a Public Health Specialist of the Istanbul Gelisim University, who made explanations within the scope of the Week for Fighting the Cancer has emphasized that one of 6 deaths arouse from the cancer.
