Apr 27, Kathmandu- In South Asia, 20 percent of all cancer patients are found to have oral cancer. In the international symposium on oral cancer organized by Kantipur Dental College and National Institute of Craniofacial Surgery, it was said that oral cancer was found in 20 percent of the total cancer patients in South Asia.

In the program, Executive Director of National Institute of Craniofacial Surgery and Craniofacial Surgeon Dr. Sumit Singh said that oral cancer patients have increased due to indiscriminate use of tobacco products. "Due to consumption of tobacco products such as cigarettes, bindi, hookah, tobacco, gutkha, paan, etc., oral cancer patients are increasing. It has been found that the number of oral cancer patients is more in Terai compared to mountains and mountains in Nepal", he said.

He also informed that it was found that two percent of patients die due to oral cancer every year. In the program, the registrar of Nepal Medical Council, Dr. Satish Dev, expressed his belief that the council is working with the safety of cancer patients as a top priority and that the facts and figures expressed in such international conferences will help in making more strategies in this work.

Dr. Buddhiman Shrestha, Executive Director of Kantipur Dental College Teaching Hospital, mentioned that it is necessary to provide training on oral cancer to dentists across the country. He also said that Kantipur Dental College is working in collaboration with various agencies to provide information about the problems related to mouth cancer, which is increasing in recent times.

More than one hundred doctors from Nepal, India and Bangladesh participated in the one-day international conference. YSP technology is currently being used in Nepal to detect oral cancer. There was also a discussion about the use of laser technology and veloscope technology in the future.