Jaipur: Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma addresses state-level seminar on World Cancer Day

Name: Jaipur: Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma addresses state-level seminar on World Cancer Day
Uploaded: 05 Feb 2021, 12:46:15 PM
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Channel: TIMESOFINDIA.COM

| Feb 05, 2021, 12:46:15 PM | TOI.in

Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma addressed a state-level seminar organized on World Cancer Day at Swasthya Bhawan in Jaipur on Thursday. Sharma said that early detection helps in controlling cancer. Therefore the health department is setting up early detection camps at the government hospitals in each district headquarters in the State. He appealed to the general public to immediately take advantage of camps on finding any symptoms. He said that till now more than a lakh people have been screened at these camps and around 4000 potential patients have been identified. He said according to the World Health Organisation, cancer is the main reason in more than 60% of the deaths in non-communicable diseases. He said that according to an estimate, around 2 crore people are suffering from cancer and each year 90 lakh new cancer patients are identified every year.