Tips on how to prevent cancer. With early detection and lifestyle modification cancer can be prevented.

1. Cancer Prevention Tips
Dr.Pawan Gupta
MS,M.Ch,FAIS,FSOG
Additional Director, Cancer Surgeon, Jaypee Hospital,Noida
National President, Innovative Cancer Care& Rehabilitation
Just a mere suspicion of having any form of Cancer sends shivers to anybody and it is natural to
feel intimidated and terrorized. Based on the cancer registry data it is estimated that there will
be about 800,000 new cancers cases in India every year. At any given point there is likely to be
3 times this load that about 240,000 cases. Yet, many of these deaths can be avoided. Over 30%
of all cancers can be prevented. Others can be detected early, treated and cured. Even with late
stage cancer, the suffering of patients can be relieved with good palliative care.
Cancer can affect just anyone – the young, the old, the rich and the poor, men, women and
children – and represents a tremendous burden on the patients, their families and the society.
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world, particularly in developing countries. It
is anyone’s diseases and not someone else’s disease. It is time that we must act now; else we
may be too late!
Cancer is no more a dreaded and mysterious disease. A lot of developments and researches
have taken place in the past two decades. We have new surgical techniques, new drugs, new
radiation machines all which has changed the outcome of the disease, we now are into organ
preservation and improved quality of life for the affected. The problem is that, still patients
come for treatment at a very advance stages. If we have to win over cancer we have to change
this scenario. The message which needs to be propagated is “BE CAREFUL NOT FEARFUL”.
Cancer of the breast, oral cavity and cervix constitutes almost 60% of cancer in India.
One third of the cancer in India are preventable. The seven steps of prevention include:

2.  step 1: Don’t use tobacco
 step 2: Eat a variety of healthy foods
 step 3: Stay active and maintain a healthy weight
 step 4: Protect yourself from the sun
 step 5: Get immunized
 step 6: Avoid risky behaviors
 step 7: Get screened
A cancer winner can spend his or her life in two ways – one is silently, pitying herself/himself,
the other is to come out and speak aloud about the fight, to win over this dreaded disease.
Today we have so many cancer winners with us and I really congratulate them for having taken
this path of speaking out.