Speech of Rinat Akhmetov, President of the Foundation for Development of Ukraine at Press-Conference “Cancer Can Be Cured. Timely Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment in Ukraine”

Dear friends!

Thank you very much for having found the time and possibility to join us today to discuss the most urgent problem of oncology diseases.

Ukraine has registered 910,267 people with cancer at the moment. Every year adds another 160,000, with 90,000 dying of the disease.

It’s terrible. The question is what to do? The only possible answer is not to give up, fight, and prevail.

But what do we have to fight and to prevail? On the one hand, there are good and top-skilled doctors, on the other hand – limited technical capacities.

I think you are aware that cancer morbidity in Europe and the USA is higher compared to Ukraine, while the mortality is lower. Why? Because they invest much in early diagnostics and effective treatment.

I ask myself – how can I help? By investing big money in early diagnostics and effective treatment of cancer.

For this reason, I decided to provide $ 40m for fighting cancer with $20m to be allocated on  Donbass region, $10m – on the National Institute of Cancer, and another $10m – on Western Ukraine.

Thank you for your attention. 

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