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| Cancer alarm in Jammu region: GMC receives 1350 cases in 2009-2010 | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 28: In what could be termed as alarming situation, in past six months Regional Cancer Centre at Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu has registered nearly 1,350 cancer patients, which has even amazed the doctors at the premier hospital, about the constantly rising number of patients every year.
Head of the Centre, Dr Ashutosh Gupta said that there has been 20 to 30 per cent rise in the number of patients every year in the state and it is a matter of concern. “ In past over a decade the number of cancer cases have rose alarmingly which is issue of concern and we have to deal with large number of people who are detected with lung, stomach, throat and cervical cancer”, said Dr Gupta.
The GMC had registered about 1,400 cancer patients in 2009 alone an alarming rise as in 2004, the number of new cancer cases in J&K was reported to be at 1,164. As per the data state has been witnessing an increasing number of cancer cases–up from 803 in 1997 to over 1,300 in 2007.
Data further says that the state reported 1,266 cancer cases in 2006, 1,185 in 2005, 1,168 in 2004, 1,058 in 2003. Between 1998 to 2002, the number of cancer cases had jumped around 6.3 per cent–937 in 1998, 901 in 1999, 952 in 2000 and 996 in 2002.
“Most of the patients belong to Jammu province, mostly from Jammu, Udhampur, Kathua Changed lifestyle is main reason for this unexpected rise is changed lifestyle and pollution”, said Gupta.
It is pertinent to mention here that GMC has recently purchased Brachytherapy cancer treatment apparatus in the hospital at the cost of Rs 2 crore to fight against the increasing number of patients with cervical cancer.
“In our part of the country, like last year, we analysed lung cancer was number one, followed by throat cancer then cancer of the food pipe, then stomach in male population, and then again in female population, we found cancer of cervix,” added Gupta.
Importantly mentioned that the basic symptoms of the cancer included blood in the urine, pain in the bone or swelling around the affected site; fractures in bones abnormal eye movements or changes in vision, a lump or thickening of the breast, rectal bleeding (red blood in stools or black stools), lump in kidney area, change in mole or other bump on the skin, painless swelling in the lymph nodes in the neck.
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