Results from a ten-year surveillance have revealed that 79% of the persons diagnosed with cancer receive no treatment; a fact that should be of major concern to all Guyana, according to Director of Disease Control at the Ministry of Health Dr Morris Edwards who also revealed that the second most affected group is made up of persons between the ages of 15-39.
“We should hang our heads in shame,” Dr Edwards said yesterday when he released the information. He suggested that this should be an area for further study as it is not clear why those persons had not accessed treatment.
Titled ‘Cancers in Guyana (2003-2012),’ the study was done with data compiled by the Cancer Registry,
