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Chandigarh 02nd December:- Max Super Specialty Hospital organized a health seminar on 'Aging and Cancer' today, which was attended by over 110 senior citizens. Dr Sajal Kakkar, Consultant, Radiation Oncology was the main speaker at the event. He said that Cancer is a group of conditions where the body cells begin to grow and reproduce in an uncontrolled manner. These cells can then invade and destroy healthy tissues. The cells become cancerous or malignant because of DNA damage, which occur more frequently in elderly age group as DNA repair becomes less active and less efficient.
Talking about how common cancers are in the elderly, Dr Sajal Kakkar said that approximately 8, 00,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed in India every year out of which 45-50% of all cancers in male and 35-40% in females occur above age 60. Among people above age of 65 years, there is 10 fold increased incidence of developing cancer as compared to younger individuals, he informed. The common tumours in older adult are Breast, Prostate, Lung, Colon and Lymphoma. He added that " It is important to be aware of unexplained changes to your body.
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