Panaji: While the incidence of cancer in Goa seems high over the past few years, the jury comes out on whether the number is actually worrying.
Experts handle cancer patients say fearful diseases can be highlighted because Goa has better reportage than other countries even because it does not have specific studies and data collection.
“Goa numbers must be seen in the light of standardization and age population.
We do not witness an increase in cancer incidents, but the population is small.
It’s not like Maharashtra or Karnataka because the two states are big,” said Gastroenterologist Dr Harish Peshwe, said.
“Goa has a health care facility that is far better than the state and other doctors are also able to take cancer cases.” The incidence of gastrointestinal cancer is more common among parents, which consists of most of the population of the country.
In accordance with the 2011 census, 11.2% of Goa’s population is 60 years and above.
While breast cancer sustains a list of overall, colon cancer, liver and stomach areas – which are common in cave – mostly found in people aged 50 or 60 years and over.
“Goa is a very literate country and people who have better access to health care facilities, so the case is reported.
I really don’t know whether the cancer incidence rises or if the diagnostic facility is getting better.
But if someone returns 30-40 Year and if someone dies because of lung cancer, people might say he died of a heart attack.
Apart from his family or friends, no one will know the true cause of his death.
However, this is no longer there, “Dr.
Eugune rent, an oncologist, said.
Senior gastroenterology and Endoscopy Dr.
Jose Alvares argues that the ‘westernized’ diet from Goa people has encouraged the arrival of Western disease as well.
“The most common cancer I see is the large intestine.
Increased fat in food, whether you are a vegetarian or non-vegetarian, is a risk factor.
People who work semil night shifts for long periods are also exposed to the risk of colon cancer or breasts .
“The problem for the smallest state of India is that it does not have comprehensive data about cancer events.
“Data has not been collected at the central source.
A trend can be measured when we exchange notes with other doctors but this cannot be a reliable method because some bias will take into account,” Expert on the head of the head and neck of Dr.
Pawan Rane, said.
While the lease says in addition to better diagnostic facilities and awareness among people about this high disease, partly because of the dissemination of information on the social media platform, Rane said he had seen more cancers of the mouth and tongue because of the consumption of tobacco or smoking among the people young.
“At the end of the day, cancer is a manifestation of the process of mutations, and as mutations accumulate, cancer events will also increase.
Certain cancers such as pancreas, liver, large intestines and esophagus are advanced diseases.
Goa has a significant population, 60-plus,” Peshwe said.
He added that while doctors operate even in cancer patients aged 70- and 80 years in Goa, individuals above 60-70 years in other countries it is impossible to hold surgical procedures “because they are not too maintained as their colleagues in Goa.
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