Statistics of Cancer

Statistics of Cancer

Cancer this word itself evokes deep fears of a silent killer that creeps upon us. Cancer conjures up such a desperation is us that today it has become a metaphor for pain and grief. The number of cancer patients have reached so high that each one of us is been touched by it as a patient, a family member or as a friend. Cancer is growing at a very fast rate in developing countries. Figure has reached twenty million.
20 million people are fighting with this dreadful disease. Yet, every country has to take a lot of measures to prevent, cure and relive this suffering. If we look at the numbers at least one third of the 10 million cancer cases that occurs annually can be prevented with the existing knowledge. If an early detection and effective treatment facilities are available we can treat at least one third of cancer cases. Which itself is a big number. All we need is right knowledge and sufficient resources. We can even improve the quality of life of cancer patients and their families, even in very low cost. We should thanks to effective, low cost approaches that provide us resources in very low settings.

For the challenges of this era scientific and public health prevention and control of cancer is the most important and most challenging. Controlling and understanding of malignant disease is very difficult because of its broader dimensions. It requires high scientific knowledge and experience to understand the complexities of intracellular molecular regulation to the individual choice of lifestyle. For executing a planning we require competent management. So the resources available to us can be used efficiently to serve us to its best. Appropriate strategies along with competence management will lead to best use of resources for planning, implementing and evaluating cancer control strategy.

Goal of various institutes like National Cancer Control and WHO is too give a better life to cancer patients and to their families. So that morbidity and mortality caused from cancer can be reduced.