PATNA: The city-based Mahavir Cancer Sansthan (MCS) has launched a massive cancer awareness drive in each district of the state. Under a new plan evolved by the MCS, a team of specialists would tour each district extensively to create proper awareness about the disease among the poor and common people. They would be taught how cancer has become curable now if detected in time, said MCS director Dr Jitendra Kumar Singh. Talking to TOI, Singh informed that the MCS has so far covered Sonepur and Danapur where the number of cancer patients has increased in recent times. Cinestar and former Union health minister Shatrughan Sinha has agreed to campaign extensively in Bihar to create awareness about cancer and its preventive measures to be adopted in life among poor people, he said. The MCS director said out of 30 lakh cancer patients across the country, Bihar accounts for 2.5 lakh such patients. Unfortunately, 10 lakh new cancer patients are being detected each year in the country of which seven lakh die every year. About 80,000 new cancer patients are being reported from Bihar alone each year, he said. "Given the circumstances, every possible effort should be made to check the sudden spurt in the number of cancer cases in the state by creating awareness among both the literate and illiterate people about the disease," he said. The menace of cancer could be put under check if the state government co-operates with the MCS's new venture to create awareness about the disease among people in each district of the state. Since the government has no contingency plan to tackle the disease, the MCS is ready to impart specialised skill and training to village and block level government doctors to provide proper medicare to cancer patients in time, the MCS director said adding most of the cancer patients are reaching MCS from villages. Singh said cancer patients from rural areas are often in the advanced stage by the time they reach the MCS. The treatment of the disease at an advanced stage could only prolong life of a cancer patient for a few years more, he said adding the disease can be cured if it is detected and treated in time. Keeping this in mind, the state government must come out with an ambitious health plan to check spread of cancer further in the state, Singh said.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
MCS launches Cancer Awareness Program
PATNA: The city-based Mahavir Cancer Sansthan (MCS) has launched a massive cancer awareness drive in each district of the state. Under a new plan evolved by the MCS, a team of specialists would tour each district extensively to create proper awareness about the disease among the poor and common people. They would be taught how cancer has become curable now if detected in time, said MCS director Dr Jitendra Kumar Singh. Talking to TOI, Singh informed that the MCS has so far covered Sonepur and Danapur where the number of cancer patients has increased in recent times. Cinestar and former Union health minister Shatrughan Sinha has agreed to campaign extensively in Bihar to create awareness about cancer and its preventive measures to be adopted in life among poor people, he said. The MCS director said out of 30 lakh cancer patients across the country, Bihar accounts for 2.5 lakh such patients. Unfortunately, 10 lakh new cancer patients are being detected each year in the country of which seven lakh die every year. About 80,000 new cancer patients are being reported from Bihar alone each year, he said. "Given the circumstances, every possible effort should be made to check the sudden spurt in the number of cancer cases in the state by creating awareness among both the literate and illiterate people about the disease," he said. The menace of cancer could be put under check if the state government co-operates with the MCS's new venture to create awareness about the disease among people in each district of the state. Since the government has no contingency plan to tackle the disease, the MCS is ready to impart specialised skill and training to village and block level government doctors to provide proper medicare to cancer patients in time, the MCS director said adding most of the cancer patients are reaching MCS from villages. Singh said cancer patients from rural areas are often in the advanced stage by the time they reach the MCS. The treatment of the disease at an advanced stage could only prolong life of a cancer patient for a few years more, he said adding the disease can be cured if it is detected and treated in time. Keeping this in mind, the state government must come out with an ambitious health plan to check spread of cancer further in the state, Singh said.
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