To curb the rising incidents of cancer in Punjab, Anil Joshi, Medical Education and Research Minister on Wednesday released a journal prepared based on the survey and inputs provided by the team of cancer specialists.
Releasing the journal, Joshi said Punjab Government would frame a policy to check the spread of cancer making serious inroads into the state.
The Minister said cancer related data was collected from various Govt hospitals, pathology laboratories, Municipal Corporations and private hospitals under Chief Minister Punjab Cancer Relief Fund Scheme and from hospitals that diagnose or treat cancer patients in States other than Punjab.
This includes data from PGIMER, Chandigarh, Rajiv Gandhi National Cancer Institute, New Delhi and Acharya Tulsi Regional Cancer Institute, Bikaner and Medanta Cancer Institute, Gurgaon.
In Patiala district, oesophageal Cancer among males has been found the highest, followed by prostate cancer (8.8 per cent), lung Cancer(6.5 per cent), oral cancer(4.9 per cent) and blood cancer(4.7 per cent).
On the other hand, Breast cancer has been found the highest in females, followed by cervical cancer (11.7 per cent), oesophageal cancer (7.5 per cent) and so on.
Majority of males having cancer are in the age group of 75 plus while majority of females having cancer are in the age group of 55-59 years. Excessive consumption of Tobacco leads to 16.7 per cent males showing these symptoms in the age group of 60-64 years and 15.9 per cent females showing these symptoms in the age group of 60-64 years.
Joshi said that this Index Journal has been prepared by the Punjab Academy of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology based on data from research publications across various regions of the country. This is a unique journal which complies with the international standards and parameters.