The development of facilities providing oncology care will continue, Miklós Szócska said. A campaign for screening breast cancer will be launched on April 10 under which invitations for examination will be mailed to 600,000 people.

A screening truck will be dispatched to poorer regions and the opening hours of screening stations will be extended.

The ministry will launch additional hard-hitting campaigns to stress the importance of early detection, he said. Vaccination against the human papillomavirus, a common cause of cervical cancer, will be made available to young females from the autumn, the state secretary said.

Currently 1,954 beds are available in 75 oncology departments in the country as against 1,880 beds in 71 departments in 2010.

A total of 35.5 billion forints is spent on therapy annually, and there are plans to carry out developments totalling 20 billion forints (EUR 64m).

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