Discussion stresses tobacco control to cut cancer prevelance

Deadly disease cancer would come down by fifty per cent in Bangladesh if the use of tobacco could be controlled, said Professor MA Hai at a discussion in the capital.

The discussion titled 'Cancer care initiative', organised by AK Khan Foundation, was held at the Sonargaon Hotel.

Khawja Younus Ali Medical College and Hospital professor MA Hai as chief guest thanked AK Khan Healthcare Trust for its initiative to set up a modern non-profit mother and child care centre for the people of Chittagong.

AKKHCT chief medical director Bimalangshu Dey presented the keynote speech in which he highlighted the vision, mission and goal of AK Khan Healthcare Trust.

He announced that they would officially launch tomorrow cancer screening programme for slum women at Korail Basti in Dhaka.

AK Khan Foundation chairman Shamsuddin Khan presided over the programme and said he would try to fill his father's dream of a women and children hospital for poor people.

Medical doctor Salim Reza, Sultana Razia Begum, Eyal Attar and Suranjana Chowdhury also presented papers on 'triple negative breast cancer', 'cervical cancer: prevention and screening', 'hematologic malignancy: diagonostic' and 'molecular diagnostics' respectively.

The programme was coordinated by Palliative and Supportive Care Foundation medical doctor Rumana Dowla and Square Hospital's clinical haematological physician Manzur Murshed.

Source : New Age

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