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Cancer should be made notifiable disease, says health expert

Our Correspondent Kohima, Sep. 9 (EMN): Alluding that the Northeast is the hotspot of cancer in the country and Nagaland has a high prevalence in cancer incidence, which is a huge burden to the state and a matter of concern, Dr. V. Khamo, Consultant at Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima (NHAK), on Friday impressed upon the government on the need to make cancer a notifiable disease. Khamo, who is also the principal investigator of Population Based Cancer Registry Nagaland (NHAK) and officer in-charge of BSL labs, Research and Ethics, was giving a presentation on ‘Common Cancer Burden: Global and India Perspective with Special reference to Nagaland’ at Hotel Vivor in Kohima, during the Continuing Medical Education (CME) on early detection and prevention of common cancers. The programme was organised by Tata Memorial Hospital and the state health department of Nagaland. The doctor informed that globally, an estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases are detected annually with 10 million can ....

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