KATHMANDU, Feb. 5 -- Health Ministry admits cancer is spreading at an alarming rate in Nepal

Cancer causes a total of 11.11 percent of deaths in Nepal while 20,000 new cases related to the fatal disease are reported every year in the country.

Organizing a press meet on Sunday, the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) informed that cancer is spreading at an alarming rate in the country. Speaking at the program, Rudra Prasad Marasini, director at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, said notable incidences of lung cancer and cervical uteri cancer are found in the patients ailing from the disease.

As per a report of the World Health Organization (WHO), every year 3,000 new cases of cervical uteri cancer are detected in Nepal...