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CANCER AWARENESS
Improving access to care
By THERESA BELLE
WHEN it comes to statistics on deaths
from cancer, the numbers we see in black
and white are often far from the actual
number of cases according to the
National Cancer Registry of Malaysia,
more than 20,000 Malaysians are
currently diagnosed with cancer but
almost 10,000 cases go unregistered and
therefore unrecorded every year.
Cancer continues to ravage people of all
ages, backgrounds and lifestyles, and is
one of the leading causes of death
worldwide.
It is often a long-term burden because
patients bear significant treatment and
recovery costs on top of physical and
psychological distress.
The National Cancer Society Malaysia
(NCSM) lists breast, colorectal (bowel),
lung, cervical and nasopharyngeal
(affecting the area behind the nose and
throat) cancers as the most common types
in Malaysia.
We must work on
improving access to
life-extending drugs
especially for advanced
cancers and make
expensive life-saving
drugs more readily
available to those who
cannot afford them.
Ranjit Kaur
2 cancer awareness
With proper treatment at the early stage of cervical cancer, patients have a high survival rate.
Surviving
cervical cancer
Dr Sanjeev
Chandra Joshi.
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joint relief
IF you experience pain and stiffness in your
body for more than an hour, especially in
the morning or after a long rest, you may
have rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
RA does not only affect the elderly but
can begin at any age, even in childhood. It
is more common in women than men but
men tend to display more severe symptoms.
RA is a progressive inflammatory
autoimmune disease where the bodys
immune system attacks the synovium, a
thin membrane that lines the joints.
It commonly affects hand, wrist and knee
joints. Symptoms include pain, stiffness,
swelling, warmth and redness.
Flare-ups come and go and symptoms
progress over time, making daily physical
activities difficult and exhausting.
If left untreated, it can cause damage to
tendons, cartilage, ligaments and eventually
results in bone erosion and joint deformity.
The exact cause of RA is unknown
it has been attributed to genetics and
environmental and hormonal factors.
Dietary choices play an important role in
the inflammatory response in RA. Sugar
and high-glycaemic foods increase blood
sugar levels and trigger the release of
insulin, which result in a pro-inflammatory
response, leading to chronic joint pain.
Obesity, an inactive lifestyle, lack of sleep,
smoking, recreational drug use and
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information,
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Cancer survivor David Lim
stays healthy with raw
food supplements.
4 cancer awareness
The Cancer and Radiosurgery Centre team provides treatment and support
to patients in line with the World Cancer Day 2016-2018 tagline We Can. I
Can.
Educating,
understanding
Beyond treatment, a lot of care
goes into aiding cancer patients,
survivors and family members in
their fight against the disease.
According to Lee, every patient
and family is provided support