Dhaka, Sept. 6 -- As elsewhere in the world, cancer cases have marked significant rise in Bangladesh during the couple of years that requires strategic interventions and care to contain the deadly disease.

Strategic interventions should focus on improving public awareness, early detection for cancers, expanding access to screening facilities and improving diagnostics at the district level, experts opined.

Cancer is currently one of the leading causes of death in Bangladesh. According to available statistics, in one year, 150,781 new cancer patients were diagnosed in the country. Among them, 18,137 died.

The statistics, however, showed that the number of women diagnosed with cancer and dying from the disease is higher than that of men i...