Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) - Nearly 6.4 million people are silently affected by cancer in Bangladesh while 20 percent deaths of women are caused by cancer, a civil rights group on Saturday revealed on the eve of World Cancer Day 2012.
Eminence, a civil rights organization, working with health and development intelligence, organized a human chain in front of the National Press Club in the capital Dhaka wearing yellow costumes to symbolize the danger of cancer which kills around 7.8 million people around the globe annually.
Nearly 12 million people gets diagnosed with some kind of cancer of whom 7.8 million dies while majority of these deaths take place in the developing countries like Bangladesh, the organization said.
One in every twenty five persons in Bangladesh suffers from cancer while death of a woman in every five is caused by the disease, according to the Eminence’s study.
Breast and cervical cancer are dominant in female while lung and prostate cancer are common in male in Bangladesh.
Toxicity in food caused by pesticide, formalin and other toxic elements, tobacco consumption, pregnancy after thirty five years of age, heredity, all may cause the disease, it noted.
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