FAISALABAD:
The number of cancer patients in Pakistan is increasing by eight to 10 per cent per year, Dr Muhammad Luqman, director of medical education at Foundation University Medical College, Rawalpindi, said on Wednesday.
Dr Luqman was addressing a seminar Latest Advances in Histopathological Diagnosis of cancer, organised by the University Medical and Dental College (UMDC) Faisalabad. The seminar was held to mark the World Cancer Day on Wednesday. He said there were more than 1.4 million cancer patients in Pakistan. More than 80,000 people died each year due to this disease, including 40,000 from breast cancer, he said.
He said that most of the untreated Hepatitis B and C cases turned into liver cancer. “Early detection of cancer greatly increases chances of successful treatment,” he said.
UMDC Principal Dr Irshadul Haq also spoke at the seminar. He stressed the need for holding such seminars and workshops to increase awareness at national level.
The event was attended by University Medical & Dental College faculty and students and doctors from Madina Teaching Hospital.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 9th, 2012.
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