Joining as chief of an awareness programme on cancer on the World Cancer Day on Monday, medical director and HoD of the Surgical Oncology of HCG Panda Cancer Hospital, Cuttack, Prof Krupasindhu Panda appealed to the people to change lifestyle and be a vegetarian to avoid cancer disease.
Chances become more to those who are late in leaving their bed in morning and sleeping late in the night, disturbed by food, said Dr Panda.
Panda said possibility of getting affected by cancer is seven times higher among drug addicts. He said 40 persons of every 100 in India chewing gutkha are prone to be affected by cancer.
However, Dr Panda told that the disease is only curable at a primary stage, while conceding that a medicine has not been invented to cure cancer fully despite a high-end examination process.
A life usually lasts for five years after detection of disease and even patients live for 15 years in exceptional cases, he said. He cautioned that no one is free from virus although they not suffering the disease.
Among others, CEO of cancer hospital Girish Mishra, Dr Saroj Das and Dr Parasuram Champatiray spoke.
The HCG Panda Cancer Hospital conducted a Walkathon with Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), nurses, gazetted medical officers and pharmacists on the occasion.