Cancer awareness program held

ROING, Apr 29: The Lower Dibang Valley department of health and family welfare organized a Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme on 'Cancer Awareness and its Prevention' at the district hospital here.

Inaugurating the CME, deputy commissioner Soumya Saurabh suggested organizing regular cancer awareness programs in the district.

The event featured lectures by Patna Medical College and Hospital’s department of pathology head Dr Dilip Kumar and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Bihar associate professor Dr Deepak Kumar, who spoke on cancer awareness and its prevention.

Specialists, medical officers, nursing officers, and other paramedical staff of the health department, along with officials from WCD/ICDS, attended the programme which saw the causes of cancer and its preventive measures being explained in detail.

According to the latest report, tobacco is the main cause of cancer in India and the world, and almost 50% of cancer cases can be prevented by quitting or avoiding tobacco use.