Hyderabad, Aug 12 (Ians) Every eight minutes a woman succumbs to breast cancer in India and with 165,000 new cases being annually reported, breast cancer has overtaken cervical cancer to become the commonest cancer affecting women in the country, said leading breast surgeon Dr P. Raghu Ram.
“Even more alarming is that, when compared to the West where breast cancer presents most often after 50 years, in India, breast cancer presents at least a decade earlier with peak incidence in younger women between 40-50 years. More than 70 per cent present in the advanced stages,” said Ram, the Director of Kims-Ushalakshmi Centre for Breast Diseases.
In his address at 10th annual Conference of The Association of Breast Surgeons of India (Absicon 2022), inaugurated by Knr University of Health Sciences Vice Chancellor, Dr Karunakar Reddy, Ram said since breast cancer can’t be prevented, the only way to fight the disease is through early detection.
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“Even more alarming is that, when compared to the West where breast cancer presents most often after 50 years, in India, breast cancer presents at least a decade earlier with peak incidence in younger women between 40-50 years. More than 70 per cent present in the advanced stages,” said Ram, the Director of Kims-Ushalakshmi Centre for Breast Diseases.
In his address at 10th annual Conference of The Association of Breast Surgeons of India (Absicon 2022), inaugurated by Knr University of Health Sciences Vice Chancellor, Dr Karunakar Reddy, Ram said since breast cancer can’t be prevented, the only way to fight the disease is through early detection.
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- 8/12/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
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