100 to 180 cancer cases per 100,000 people in Morocco

The rate of cancer in Morocco ranges from 100 to 180 per 100,000 people, health minister, Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah, said Wednesday.

The minister, who was answering a question during the parliament's weekly question time, noted that breast cancer represents 15 percent of these cases.

He announced that cancer care centers will be reinforced by the creation of two new specialized units in Oujda (east) and Al Hoceima (north). These projects will be carried out in collaboration with Mohammed V solidarity Foundation and the council in the region, he underlined.

Biadillah recalled that other cancer care centers were set up in other Moroccan regions, explaining that their creation will help sooth the suffering of patients living away from Rabat and Casablanca where most cancer care centers are located.

He added that some programs were carried out at local levels to train general doctors on the early detection of this disease, deploring that the number of specialized doctors remains insufficient.