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Cancer is catching 'em young
The breed of 'young' victims - in the age group of 25 -40 years- now comprise one-fourth of all cancer patients , say oncologists.
But the truth was on him a few weeks ago, when much to his horror, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
But his doctor is not shocked for having seen this deadly disease in a youngster, because his colleagues and he are increasingly noticing such disease amongst the young in the past decade.
The breed of 'young' victims - in the age group of 25 -40 years- now comprise one-fourth of all cancer patients , say oncologists.
"An alarming number of people (around 8-10/per lakh) in this young age group are being detected with cancer these days. But the good part is that with increasing awareness these days, about 40 per cent cases are detected in the early stages itself, which can be cured or delayed from progressing into the next stage unlike earlier,"Apollo Cancer hospital director Dr P Vijayanand Reddy told 'STOI'.
But the worrying factor is that cancers in youngsters tend to be more aggressive. "The younger the age, the more difficult it is to battle cancer cells. Solid organ tumours, which occur in the 25-40 year age group, are usually genetic in nature and depending on the grade and behaviour of the tumour it is observed that prognosis (outcome) is very poor,"Indo-American Cancer Institute director Dr Ch Mohana Vamsy.
A stage-I cancer in a 50-year-old is almost 90 per cent curable, but a similar cancer in a 30-year-old is only around 70 per cent curable, added Dr Vamsy.
International Union Against Cancer also known as Union Internationale Contre Le Cancer, an NGO working against global cancer, says in the past decade 1,60,000 new paediatric cancer cases are being detected annually.
Though doctors say that factors that cause cancer cannot be pin-pointed in all cases and there are numerous reasons for its initiation, they admit it can be prevented and delayed.
Keeping in line with this medical belief, the theme for World Cancer Day 2007, which is being observed on Sunday, has been declared as 'Today's Children.
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