51³Ô¹ÏÍø

THIS PICTURE IS PART OF A PACKAGE OF 21 BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES BY AFP IRANIAN PHOTOGRAPHER BEHROUZ MEHRI DOCUMENTING THE FINAL MONTHS OF HIS SISTER'S BREAST CANCER BATTLE. A Morphine drip is attached to Iranian Soheila Mehri, who suffers from breast cancer, at a hospital in Tehran on April 11, 2013, to ease her pain after the cancer spread in her spine. Soheila, a retired primary school teacher, who fought her cancer for several months, passed away at the age of 54 on April 13, 2013. According to Iranian cancer research, breast cancer is the most common form of the illness suffered by Iranian women which is affecting them at least one decade younger than their counterparts in developed countries. The annual number of new breast cancer cases is estimated to double from 2008 to 2030 due to the demographic transition alone, while import of medicine is becoming increasingly difficult as patients in Iran are affected by Western economic sanctions due to the country's controversial nuclear program. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI == IRAN OUT == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE == (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP) (Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)