Tobacco related cancers account for the highest figure
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 13 2014 :
Of the many types of cancer detected in 2013, cancers caused by tobacco accounted for the maximum number.
According to a Population Based Cancer Registry (PBCR) taken up RIMS Pathology Department since May 2013, 212 case of tobacco related cancers were detected among males and 130 among females.
Tobacco related cancers accounted for 27.6 per cent of all types of cancer detected.
The report says that lip cancer constituted 0.2 pc, tongue cancer 1.5 pc, hypopharynx cancer 1.4 pc, pharynx unspecified cancer 0.1, oesophagus cancer 3.1 pc, larynx cancer 1.7, lung cancer 16.8 pc and urinary bladder cancer 1.5 pc.
One major case of lung cancer is consumption of tobacco and tobacco products.
Smoking, consumption of pan with zarda, Raja Khaini, Khaini and Pan-Parag can also cause lung cancer.
Consumption of tobacco products is very high in Manipur.
This is evident at public grounds on the next morning of public entertainment programmes like musical concert or Shumang Leela.
One would see the whole ground littered with wrappers/containers of tobacco products.
Both the World Health Organisation as well as the Indian Council of Medical Research maintained that tobacco related cancers are preventable.
To best way to avoid tobacco related cancers is refraining oneself from consumption of tobacco and tobacco products.
To check consumption of tobacco products, the Governments and its law enforcing agencies need to take up stringent measures.
Consumption of tobacco and tobacco products is very high in India too.
The number of women habituated to chewing zarda pan is increasingly alarmingly in Manipur.
Meanwhile, the Voice of Tobacco Victims has launched an intensive campaign to check consumption of tobacco products in India.
Victims of tobacco related cancers can be treated but it is very costly and one is not sure whether the treatment would prove effective or not.
They also face all the risks associated with chemotherapy and radiation.
The PBCR taken up by RIMS Pathology Department under the sponsorship of ICMR collects data from not only Government and private hospitals located within the State but also from Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai and B Barua Cancer Hospital, Guwahati.