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The Czech Ministry of Health has issued the Gazette No. 5/2009 as an amendment to the Gazette No. 7/2008, which defines the network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres (CCCs) in the Czech Republic.
Since the Czech Republic has the world's highest colorectal cancer mortality, oncologists and health insurance companies have agreed to offer more options of cancer prevention.
More than 67,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed in the Czech Republic each year, and almost 28,000 deaths per year are cancer-related. The number of persons living with cancer – or having suffered from it in the past – exceeded 380,000 in 2005.
There are some good news for Czech cancer patients, as Prof Jiri Vorlicek, President of the Czech Society for Oncology, told the journalists earlier today. "Last year, for the first time ever, Czech cancer patients were provided the same quality of treatment as patients in the old European Union countries. A similar volume of resources has been contracted with health insurance companies for this year, and if problems occurred due to the financial crisis, talks will be renewed in mid-year 2009.
