According to the recent update which had come forward tells that India is actually expanding billion dollars on cancer-related deaths. India has the low cancer rate in relation to the western nation but the reports tell that it has highest premature deaths due to cancer. The study gets published this week tells that India is losing its tens of billion dollars due to cancer deaths.
The report which works on the loss of productivity in BRICS i.e Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In the research, India gets the second place and recorded a loss of $6.7 billion in 2012 because of cancer which had affected 0.36% of GDP productivity that year. There are around 7 lakh deaths every year in India because of a deadly disease called cancer. This rate is getting a boost with the increase rate of drinkers and smokers in the country as a whole.
This is the causes which are turning to 50% oral cancer rates in India. The lip and oral cancer are playing a dominant role in these number of deaths in India. Another major cause is the increased usage of tobacco products. Tobacco-related problems cost around Rs. 100,000 crores every year and hence results in productivity loss as a whole. At this, experts advised that there is a need to focus on the detection of cancer in early states and to provide effective treatment to the patients even in the government centers.
Dr. P Gupta who is the director of Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Navi Mumbai and also the co-author of the study tells,”In India and China, the lost productivity costs per death of leukemia are relatively high, perhaps because advanced, multi-modality treatments can be difficult to access. The costs and logistical difficulties in implementing screening and treatment programs highlight the importance of prevention in relation to cancer in the BRICS countries.”