Mehr Razavi, a specialty center where cancer research, training, screening, diagnosis and treatment are carried out, opened on October 3 in Razavi Hospital in Mashhad, the capital of Khorasan Razavi Province.
The medical center aims to help with early diagnosis of cancer and promote the quality of the patients� lives. The facility is unique in Iran and the region. Apart from an oncology center in Turkey which is a subsidiary of a US cancer center, no similar medical facility can be found in the Middle East.
The center raises public awareness about cancer, ways of preventing it, self-examination and cancer symptoms through workshops and courses, informative booklets as well as publication of articles.
The hospital�s administrator has said that October 3-9 has been designated as hospital�s Cancer Week and added, �Days of this week are named: Public Contribution and Cancer, Mental Security and Cancer, Family and Cancer, The Environment and Cancer, Nutrition and Cancer, Lifestyle and Cancer, Sports and Cancer.�
Images of the cancer center in Mashhad released online by the Young Journalists Club:
This news was translated by IFP from Young Journalists Club
