Statistics reveal steep rise in incidences of cancer worldwide. If reports are to be believed -- cancer has risen from 700 new cases per million population in 2013 to nearly 1,000 new cases per million people in 2015. The rising trend of cancer is more of less same in India. As per the World Health Organization, cancer deaths in India alone, were projected to reach 7,00,000 by the end of 2015, the highest annual estimate yet. While reasons behind rise in incidences of cancer may vary from individual to individual, by and large erratic and faulty lifestyle, pollution, contamination food, lack of physical activity and poor eating habits are few of the prime reasons for growth behind the deadly cancer across the world.
According to experts, the root cause behind rise in cancer that we lay emphasis more on `cure’ rather than `prevention’. If our goal is to decrease the incidence of cancer, the first step must be to increase efforts for prevention, by establishing and ensuring access to screening processes for early detection. As the screening processes for cancer detection is unaffordable for majority of population in our country, both the governments and corporate entities need to come forward to make cancer screening affordable process affordable for the common men. Besides setting up affordable cancer screening centres, a simultaneous should also be taken by both the government, corporate bodies, NGOs to motivate people for cancer screening tests. If we work on these two major issues, there is no denying the fact that we can defeat the demon of cancer in the coming time.
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