‘The unexpected makes us grow, which is what the past few days have been about. Learning that I have been diagnosed with NeuroEndocrine Tumour as of now has admittedly been difficult...’ said the much-loved Bollywood star Irrfan Khan. With 6 cycles of chemotherapy taken along with several scans, the actor who was undergoing treatment for a neuroendocrine tumor in London is back in the country. Indeed, the number of cancer cases has increased to several folds in the past decade.
According to a reported study in Annals of Oncology, the increase in the number of these cases has been related to the population growth, stress, aging, and diet. Further, lifestyle changes and the recent innovations in the diagnosis and screening have also accounted for the rise in the number of recorded incidences of the deadly disease. Speaking about this deadly disease, actor Irrfan Khan previously…