‘5,013 Jordanians diagnosed with cancer in 2012’

AMMAN — A total of 5,013 Jordanians and 2,441 non-Jordanians residing in the Kingdom were diagnosed with cancer in 2012, according to the Health Ministry’s annual statistics report for 2015, the Sisterhood Is Global Institute (SIGI) said on Thursday.

A total of 2,667 Jordanian women were among those diagnosed, constituting 53.2 per cent, according to a SIGI statement. Breast cancer was the most common form of cancer among Jordanian females, with 994 diagnoses in 2012 (37.3 per cent), while lung cancer was the most common type of cancer among Jordanian males, with 282 cases (12.4 per cent).

Some 61.9 per cent of the cases were in Amman, while Ajloun had the lowest number of diagnoses (0.9 per cent).