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  • Published on: 8 November 2017
    Stress and Cancer: India being the vulnerable Asian country
    • Biju Soman, Post Graduate Trainee (MHA Program) Department of Public Health, Manipal University, Manipal
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      • Aswathi R Lathika, Lecturer

    Stress resilience and cancer risk: a nationwide cohort study (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Volume 71 Issue 10) was a real eye opener to throw light on a new arena of cancer studies. This could be a serious issue in a developing country like India, where the number of patients diagnosed with cancer is shooting up quite alarmingly[1]. The data of National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research ( September 2017) highlights that, people living with cancer in India is estimated to be around 2.5 million, more than 7 lakh people are newly diagnosed with cancer every year and 5,56,400 people died in 2016 alone, due to this deadly disease[2]. The burden of Thyroid cancer in India has signalled the health authority as the people suffering from thyroid cancer is more than 10 million in the population of 1.324 billion[3].
    Official statistics reveal that there are only about 2000 oncologists in India to treat 10 million cancer patients and the ratio of oncologists to cancer patients is about 1:5,000, whereas, the US has a ratio of about 1:100. There are only 27 Regional Cancer Centres (RCC) in India, which are funded by Central and State Governments and 300 general hospitals. These institutions with inadequate staff, amalgamated with other constraints like financial burden and supply chain challenges make the treatment of cancer even worse[4].
    The escalating cost of cancer treatment in corporate hospitals have made the treatment a night mare for common...

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