SHILLONG, APR 22: With the increasing number of cancer cases in the North East region, a ‘Pink Chain Cancer Campaign’ is all set to be held tomorrow, sending a message that the- ‘disease is curable’.
The campaign will be inaugurated by the Union DoNER minister Jitendra Singh at the North Eastern Council (NEC) Auditorium in Nongrim Hills, Shillong.
According to NEC officials, the campaign aims at creating awareness on the importance of screen, detect and cure (SDC), at early stages and save millions of lives across the country.
Addressing newsmen on Friday, Cancer Specialist from AIIMS, Delhi, Abhishek Shankar said, “Many people think that cancer is incurable because 80 per cent of cancer patients comes at a later stage, where chance of survival is 20 per cent.”
“There is a need to change this perception since the disease is preventable and curable,” Shankar said adding cancer if diagnose and treated at early stage is curable unlike other diseases such as diabetes where patients have to take medication for lifetime.
Terming the type of cancers from North East as a ‘socio cultural disease’, the doctor said, “People should be made aware on the need to avoid local practices.” According to him, the incidence of stomach cancer is very high in Mizoram.
Why the incidence is so high is understandable from the fact that some people of Mizoram are in the habit of consuming water filtrate of tobacco which is even sold in the open market by the name of “Tuibur”, popular habit of consuming smoked meat.
He also said that breast cancer is highly prevalence in female while oral cancer in male.-By Our Reporter
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