Egyptian Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar affirmed that Egypt is witnessing an unprecedented qualitative leap in confronting cancer, as the latest international estimates from the "Globocan" observatory of the International Agency for Research on Cancer under the World Health Organization recorded a tangible decrease in the burden of cancerous tumors nationwide.

Abdel Ghaffar said in a press statement that the standardized cancer mortality rate decreased by 23.5%, and the standardized incidence rate by 17.2% between the estimates of 2022 and 2024.

He added that liver cancer had the largest share in this tangible decline, with its mortality rate falling by 22.1% and incidence rate by 16.7%, reflecting the success of the President's initiative '100 Million Health' in eliminating hepatitis C virus, which was the main cause of this type of cancer in Egypt.

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‏‎He continued: Our success in confronting hepatitis C has turned the balance of the cancer map in Egypt, making breast cancer the most common today, which drives us to intensify early detection programs that we implement nationwide. Bladder cancer continues to decline due to ongoing efforts to combat bilharzia, which have lasted for decades.

‏‎The Health Minister stressed that these positive results are the fruit of strategic investment in preventive health, major presidential initiatives, and the hard work of Egyptian medical teams, noting that the ministry continues to strengthen the national cancer registry and early detection to solidify this positive trajectory.