By Tricitynews
Yamunanagar 12th July:- India
has leapt towards dubious distinction of being the oral cancer capital of world
with the the country contributing to 57 percent global cases of head and
neck cancers.
Dr Rajan Sahu, Senior Consultant
Surgical Oncology, Paras Multispeciality Hospitals Panchkula said while talking
to media persons on World No Tobacco Day. Flanked by Dr. Brig Rajeshwar Singh,
Director Medical, Dr Parneet Singh Consultant Radiation Oncology , Dr Jagandeep
Singh, Associate Consultant Ortho Oncology and Dr Anupam Gauba, Consultant
Nuclear Medicine from Paras Hospitals Panchkula, Dr Rajan Sahu said that
the situation is quiet alarming especially in the scenario when people do not
prefer health tests and annual checkups as basic requirements.
He said that India has dubious
distinction of being oral cancer capital of world because of rampant habit of
tobacco chewing. 25 lakh total cancer patients & every year 8 lakh
cancet patient died, but 3 lakh people die due reason of tabacco chewing. The
Health Ministry's own statistics show that over 65 per cent of cancers in India
can be attributed to tobacco use.
Dr Rajan Sahu said that India
continues to report highest prevalence of oral cancers globally with around 1.2
Lac new cases of such cancers reported every year.
Chewing tobacco and gutkha
contribute to 90 per cent of oral cancer cases in India. He also shared that
one third of the cancers can be prevented by lifestyle modification. In India,
tobacco alone is responsible for 1.5 lakh cancers, 4.2 million heart diseases,
3.7 million lung diseases every year.
Speaking on the occasion Dr Parneet
Singh added that number of new cases of cancer is expected to rise by about 70
percent over the next two decades.
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