Feb 4 is the World Cancer Day. Around 80 percent of men and women are infected by breast cancer when they come to a hospital.
The breast and cervix Cancer are most common among women while men suffer from neck, throat and prostate cancer.
Amongst them urban women are rapidly afflicted with Cancer due to rapid lifestyle changes as delayed reproductive activity, prolonged reproductive period playing hormonal havoc and lack of physical work.
In India, Cancer is rapidly spreading on graph and atleast one million new cancer cases coming up every year in India.
As per the Delhi Cancer Registry data, the number of cancer cases in rural areas is 14.5 per 100,000, whereas in urban areas, it is 26.9 per 100,000.