Awareness and Early Cancer Detection

All too often, when the doctor utters the word "cancer", what the patient hears is "you are dying". The fact is it need not be so. Cancer is a dreaded disease, but the fear often arises out of ignorance and misconceptions, rather than any reality. Through its work at grass-root level, it came to realize that one of the main problems in India, in the control of cancer was lack of knowledge about lifestyles and societal practices that caused 70 per cent of its occurrence. With the highest incidence of cancers in the head and neck regions for men and cervix and breast for women, Our NGO woke up to the realization that many of these cancers were preventable and curable had they been caught at an early stage.