Lung cancer is the deadliest among all cancers with the highest annual mortality (1.6 million) as well as incidence (1.8 million) globally, and is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 cancer related deaths. World Cancer Day was observed a few days ago and it was around the same time that, an acquaintance of succumbed to this dreaded disease within 10 months of diagnosis, to became part of the world statistics of someone dying somewhere of lung cancer every 30 seconds. I met Ismail (name changed) at King ...
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