Hyderabad: Apollo Cancer Hospital Dr Vijay Anand Reddy’s book ‘I am A Survivor’ gets released in Telugu yesterday.
The hospital’s joint managing director Dr Sangita Reddy, former India left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju and Tollywood actress Rakul Preet Singh released the book.
Anand Reddy said that the thought that the book was still not in the reach of a vast majority of patients made him translate it into Telugu. The book is a compilation of stories of 108 cancer survivors.
Sangita Reddy was quoted in a media report as saying that nationwide screening for non-communicable diseases was essential to prevent and detect decease like cancer. She further said sharing experiences of survivors gives strength to others.
“Every eight seconds, a woman is dying of cervical cancer somewhere in the world. Every year in India, about 11.5 lakh patients are detected with cancer but the good thing is 8.9 lakh of them are no longer patients, and they are the cancer survivors,” she said in the report.