Different types of diseases and infections have always threatened man. However, one disease that is considered almost deadly and has a very high rate of recurrence is cancer. Irrespective of a particular region, state or a country this particular disease affects everyone without discriminating in between the different types of human races.
The last decade’s figures as taken by the Indian population census reveals that the mortality rate in India touched an all time high and is the highest by any disease in the country. This in itself denotes the seriousness and threat of the disease. Cancer hence is responsible for causing maximum mortality and leads to around 0.3 million deaths every year. Apart from unawareness, other reasons that have contributed in increasing the mortality rate due to cancer in India include poor ability to prevent, diagnose as well as treat the disease.
Indians suffer from almost all types of cancer including lungs, breast, rectum, skin, liver, prostate, stomach, cervix, esophagus, blood, bladder, mouth cancer and more. With more than 30 percent, Indians in the age group of 45 to 64 years dying due to cancer it has indeed become important to go through these figures, find out the cause and evolve measures to stop it.
Why is Cancer on the Rise in India?
According to health experts, the causes of increase in the number of cancer patients are varied. These can be divided broadly into internal and external causes.
The internal causes include:
- Mutations
- Genetic
- Poor immune conditions
- Hormonal
The external causes include:
- Industrialization
- Food habits
- Population overgrowth
- Social
- Air pollution
- Smoking
- Occupational exposure such as asbestos
- Alcohol or drug abuse
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