Physicians and scientists have come up with prevention guidelines that could help reduce the increasing cases of cancer all over the world. The delegates who attended a conference organised by Apollo Cancer Institute, an arm of Apollo Hospitals, have expressed their commitment towards providing long-term solutions that would stem the tide of cancer spread across the world.

At the 3-Day conference held in Hyderabad, India, participants agreed that there is an urgent need to galvanise massive inputs and resources on a global scale to arrest the scourge of cancer all over the word. In doing this, it was expressed unanimously that stakeholders within and outside medical professions must begin to attend to cancer issue with utmost and proactive attention.

To build a broad based cooperation among the stakeholders and strategise for workable solution, the conference admonished the participants to begin sensitisation and advocacy to eliminate ignorance about the general belief that cancer is incurable.

General belief

All the participants registered their willingness and readiness to embark on massive awareness campaign that will change people’s belief and attitude that cancer is curable.

The conference delegates made a joint declaration to offer a long-term solution to stem the tide of cancer spread in the world. The declaration places premium on public education and enlightenment which stresses act of prevention over treatment in managing cancer-related ailment.

According to the declaration, there is need to adhere to the recommendations which includes; avoiding tobacco use.

Preventing viral infections, preventing obesity,   avoiding excessive consumption of alcohol and        high consumption of vegetable and fruits.

Also, it was stated that early diagnoses and effective treatment reduces cancer morbidity and mortality by 60 per cent. The round-table session also made serious case for intensive cancer screening programme delivered on a larger scale in communities, states and nations.