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Volume 4 Issue 1 (January - February, 2016)

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A SURVEY BASED CANCER STATISTICS FOCUSED ON INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE FROM DIFFERENT POPULATIONS IN INDIA
Sundram Priyadarshnie

Tobacco is the most important identified cause of cancer followed by dietary practices, inadequate physical activity, alcohol consumption, infections due to viruses and sexual behavior. The total number of fresh cancer cases is increasing speedily, due to growth in size of the population, and increase in the proportion of elderly persons as a result of improved life expectancy following control of communicable diseases. Knowledge based on epidemiological patterns and trends would be of great help in distinguishing persons at high risk for the development of a particular cancer. The public education on ‘tobacco and its health hazards’, recommended dietary guidelines, safe sexual practices, and lifestyle modifications form the scientific basis for planning and organizing prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer in a community. Moreover, incorporating screening for cervical, breast and oral cancers into peripheral health infrastructure can have a significant effect on reducing mortality from these diseases. This article emphasizes on the incidence and prevalence based epidemiological cancer statistics and prevention measures as pertinent to India.
Keywords: Prevalence, Tobacco, Epidemiology.

 
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