Wraa Noor Haider
Islamabad: Pakistan is a densely populated, low-income country with an estimated 21 million people. The general population’s lack of awareness, unhygienic lifestyles and poor sanitary conditions in populated areas are the main causes of the country’s endemic prevalence of various communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Studies on the prevalence and incidence of cancer in Pakistan are very few. Previously, there were just two cancer registers located in Karachi and Lahore; and recently in 2015, the Pakistan Health Research Council (PHRC) in Islamabad developed a National Cancer Registry.
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