| Winning Over Cancer |
All too often, when the doctor utters the word "cancer", what the patient hears is "you are dying". The fact is it need not be so. Cancer is a dreaded disease, but the fear often arises out of ignorance and misconceptions, rather than
any reality. One of the main problems in India, in the control of cancer was lack of knowledge about lifestyles and
societal practices that caused 70 per cent of its occurrence. With the highest incidence of cancers in the head and
neck regions for men and cervix and breast for women, people should wake up to the realization that many of these
cancers were preventable and curable had they been caught at an early stage. Nearly 100,000 women get affected
by breast cancer every year in India, of whom around 40,000 die due to lack of awareness and late diagnosis.
Women can reduce the burden of this disease by becoming aware of their own health. One should create awareness
about the disease among women in small towns. Without sharing this knowledge resource we cannot win the battle
against Cancer.
At HealthImpetus, we have teamed up well-known Oncologist and have been conducting Cancer awareness
camps across Pan-India
Breast cancer awareness camp in the month of October 2009. For further details.
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