site.btaHealth Professionals Caring for Cancer Patients to Decline by 4.1 Mln Worldwide by 2040, Oncologist Assoc. Prof. Zhelyazko Arabadzhiev Says

Health professionals caring for cancer patients will decline by 4.1 million people worldwide by 2040, including 56% of all nurses and 12% of all doctors, oncologist Assoc. Prof. Zhelyazko Arabadzhiev, President of the Bulgarian Scientific Society of Immuno-Oncology said Tuesday during a forum on the socio-economic burden of diseases. Medics from different specialties participated in the event. According to Arabadzhiev, 56% of those health professionals will be nurses, 12% - doctors and the rest are other medical specialists.