Northern Railways Central Hospital hold breast cancer awareness programme

New Delhi: The Oncology Department at the Northern Railways Central Hospital on Thursday organised a "Think Pink" breast cancer awareness programme in the Capital city, as part of the World Breast Cancer Awareness Month this year.

Northern Railways General Manager TP Singh was at the event along with Harinder Kaur, President of the Northern Railways Women Welfare Organisation along with other senior officials.

As per statistics from the World Health Organisation, cancer is set to be the most prevalent disease in the years to come and breast cancer is seemingly the most predominant type of cancer found in women all over the world.

In India, breast cancer is observed more in the urban population with one in 28 women having a chance of getting the disease. Experts have said that early detection and timely treatment are the first steps to be taken to tackle the disease.

Dr Meenu Walia and Dr Puneet Gupta, both oncologists at private hospitals in Delhi spoke at the event on topics such as Screening and Early Detection of Breast Cancer and Changing Trends of Cancer Care in India. Both the experts were of the opinion that self awareness and regular clinical checkups especially after the age of 30 yrs goes a long way in early detection of Breast Cancer consequently the treatment rate also improves.

GM Singh addressed the gathering and congratulated the doctors of Northern Railways for their dedicated service to their patients and informed the gathering that a new software "Hospital Management System" is being developed by the Railways, implementation of which will streamline patient management and record keeping.