"Why always women?"
I felt very sad when I heard the news of singer Bhava Tharani's death due to the chronic illness of stomach cancer at her early age. I am addicted to her voice, especially the "Mayil Pola" song from Bharati; it is a pinnacle song for her. When I see female cancer patients in my radiation oncology department, more than 80% of them are homemakers. That's the reason they are affected by cancer.
They are carrying their families, not themselves. This is the reason for them to have irregular eating habits, not maintaining a healthy BMI, going to bed late, and waking up early in the morning. Some of them married in their teenage years and also got pregnant at an early stage. This is the reason for their bodies undergoing irregular hormone changes. According to 2020 data, 78.5% of women had cervix and breast cancer. Both cancers highly result from irregular hormone secretion in the body.
The last time I talked to my sister-in-law, I asked her, "Did you get the HPV vaccine?" She wasn't aware of it. Not only her, but many women also don't know about the cancer vaccine. They don't care about sudden changes in their bodies like pelvic pain, white discharge, irregular periods, or more blood clotting than usual during menstrual time, skin color changes, pigmentation, new lumps, and nipple pain, etc.
I don't blame our Indian homemakers; I blame only their husbands who don't care about them. This is a characteristic of traditional Indian homemakers' husbands. This is not the fate of women; this is the fate of our country.
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