The cancer is a lethal disease but mortality rate owing to this disease could be reduced by creating awareness amongst masses to adopt safety measures.
This was stated by Founding Professor of the Baqai Institute of Oncology Dr Fariduddin Baqai at a meeting held here on Saturday evening in connection with arrangements for holding a children walk to mark the World Cancer Day. He said the medical organisations need to realise their prime responsibility in this regard.
Prominent expert of Cancer Professor SH Manzoor Zaidi said that according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) survey, 7.6 million people died of cancer in 2005 all over the world, however 40 percent of the registered patients were cured. He stressed the need to keep people away from tobacco and its products as use of tobacco in any shape causes cancer and other diseases.
Professor SH Manzoor said that anti-tobacco laws were existing in the country but it was amazing that they had not been implemented yet.
He said that people were not taking proper physical exercise and using fine grain and meat abundantly, which had raised the cancer rate.
He said that we should make efforts to apprise the people including youth and children about the symptoms, harms, precautionary measures and treatment about the cancer in order to save them from this lethal disease.
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