Open AccessCancer: An alarm is ticking
Author(s) -
Padmaja S. Kanchi,
Purushottam A. Giri
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2395-7565
DOI - 10.31254/jmr.2015.1301
Subject(s) - cancer , ignorance , medicine , disease , public health , cause of death , developed country , cancer survival , action (physics) , intensive care medicine , environmental health , medical emergency , political science , pathology , population , physics , quantum mechanics , law
Cancer has become an important topic of concern since the world Cancer Report alarms that cancer patients are expected to rise by 50% resulting in 50 million new cancer cases by 2020 [1] . In the developing countries, cancer is emerged as a major public health problem and it is feared that it will be a cause of approximately 75% of all deaths [2, 3] . In 2012, cancer was the cause of 600 000–700 000 deaths[4] proving the severity of the disease and cause of concern. Many factors like unawareness, lower socio economic status, ignorance are responsible for delayed diagnosis leading to advanced stage at the time of diagnosis. It leads to lowering in patient survival rate of 30% compared to 60% in developed countries [5, 6] . WHO has highlighted that healthy lifestyles and suitable public health action plans will take care of majority of cancers [2] .