About 30 thousand oncological operations are performed annually in Kazakhstan in combination with chemoradiotherapy using video endoscopic equipment, Minister of Health Akmaral Alnazarova said at a meeting of the Human Rights Commission under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
A nuclear medicine center has been opened in Semey, where radionuclide therapy has been introduced for the first time in Kazakhstan.
Innovative 3-D prosthetics has been successfully applied in bone oncopathology.
Every year, more than 12 thousand patients receive radiation therapy (tomotherapy, stereotaxis, IMRT, IGRT).
According to the results of 7 months of 2024, compared with the same period last year, mortality from malignant neoplasms in the Republic of Kazakhstan decreased by 3.2%. The country also provides medical rehabilitation to patients in 7 profiles: cardiology, cardiac surgery, neuropathology, neurosurgery, traumatology, orthopedics. Since 2024, rehabilitation of patients with malignant neoplasms has been introduced.
In total, 208 thousand patients underwent medical rehabilitation in 2023.
Source: Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan
