Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 3: Currently 8.2 million people died from cancer worldwide every year, out of which 4 million people died prematurely between age of 30 to 69 years. World Cancer day was the ideal opportunity to spread the word and raise the profile of cancers in people's mind.
This was stated by Dr. Shabab Angurana, Consultant Oncologist at Government Medical College, Jammu in a press release on World Cancer Day issued here today.
He said that according to WHO recent study, non-communicable diseases were estimated to have accounted for 60 percent of the deaths in India in 2014. The probability of an Indian, in the age group of 30-70 years, dying at present from the four main non-communicable diseases like diabetes, cancer, stroke and respiratory problems was 26 percent."
Meanwhile World Cancer Day this year's theme is "Cancer - Not beyond us". World Cancer Day 2015 will take a positive and proactive approach to the fight against cancer, highlighting that solutions do exist across the continuum of cancer, and that they are within our reach.
Dr. Angurana further said that the estimated number of cancer patients in the country for the year 2011, 2012 and 2013 were 2776954, 2854451, 2934314 respectively. Similarly, the estimated number of cancer patient's deaths in the country for the year 2011, 2012 and 2013 were 452541, 465169, 478185 respectively.
In Jammu and Kashmir, number of cancer patients for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 were 28857, 29841, 30855 respectively. Similarly, the estimated number of cancer patient's deaths for the year 2011, 2012 and 2013 were 4703, 4863, 5028 respectively, Dr. Angurana informed.
Unless urgent action was taken to raise awareness about the disease and to develop practical strategies to address cancer, this was projected to increase to alarming premature cancer deaths every year, he remarked.
Moreover people did not want to talk openly about the disease. If they have cancer, they would get silent. They would close their doors and stay at home. They were reluctant to go hospital to see doctors. That negative understanding would influence the result as early detection would make it treatable. The doctors could hardly help them if it was too late, pointed out Dr. Angurana. |
